TBESH · H0272
אֲחֻזָּה · a.chuz.zah · possession
1) possession, property 1a) land 1b) possession by inheritance
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a.chuz.zah H272
אֲחֻזָּה (a.chuz.zah) means “possession” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אֲחֻזָּה Hebrew · H272 66 tagged occurrences in 58 verses
Pronunciation guide: akh-ooz-zaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine passive participle from H270 (אָחַז); something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)
KJV glosses: possession.
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How translators render H272
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| property | 7 |
| possession | 6 |
| site | 5 |
| as a possession | 3 |
| the property | 2 |
| they possess | 2 |
| to his property | 2 |
| and of the property | 1 |
| and the property | 1 |
| and their possessions | 1 |
| are their possession | 1 |
| as his possession | 1 |
| as property | 1 |
| as the property | 1 |
| as their own possession | 1 |
| as your possession | 1 |
| from his own property | 1 |
| from his property | 1 |
| from the territory | 1 |
| from their property | 1 |
| he owns | 1 |
| his own property | 1 |
| his property | 1 |
| it will be their possession | 1 |
| of his land | 1 |
| of his own property | 1 |
| of your inheritance | 1 |
| on his own property | 1 |
| some of his property | 1 |
| the original owner | 1 |
| the territory | 1 |
| their holdings | 1 |
| their own property | 1 |
| their possession | 1 |
| their property | 1 |
| they possessed | 1 |
| they will possess | 1 |
| to his own property | 1 |
| you possess | 1 |
| your possession | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| for a possession | 6 |
| of his possession | 6 |
| of their possession | 4 |
| of your possession | 4 |
| the possession | 4 |
| unto his possession | 4 |
| possession | 3 |
| their possession | 3 |
| a possession | 2 |
| and of the possession | 2 |
| of the possession | 2 |
| them a possession | 2 |
| and from the possession | 1 |
| and their possession | 1 |
| and their possessions | 1 |
| and they shall be your possession | 1 |
| and unto the possession | 1 |
| for his possession | 1 |
| from his possession | 1 |
| have for themselves for a possession | 1 |
| in his possession | 1 |
| in their possessions | 1 |
| me a possession | 1 |
| me for a possession | 1 |
| moreover from the possession | 1 |
| out of his own possession | 1 |
| shall be his possession | 1 |
| shall be your possession | 1 |
| that the possession | 1 |
| them no possession | 1 |
| them out of their possession | 1 |
| thy possession | 1 |
| to him to whom the possession | 1 |
| to his possession | 1 |
| to you for a possession | 1 |
| with the possession | 1 |
Verses containing H272
Page 1 of 2. 58 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 17:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Read word by word - Genesis 23:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Read word by word - Genesis 23:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
Read word by word - Genesis 23:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
Read word by word - Genesis 36:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
Read word by word - Genesis 47:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Read word by word - Genesis 48:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
Read word by word - Genesis 49:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Read word by word - Genesis 50:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:34
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:33
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
Read word by word - Numbers 27:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
Read word by word - Numbers 27:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
Read word by word - Numbers 32:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
Read word by word - Numbers 32:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.
Read word by word - Numbers 32:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
Read word by word - Numbers 32:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”
Read word by word - Numbers 35:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
Read word by word - Numbers 35:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
Read word by word - Numbers 35:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:49
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
Read word by word - Joshua 21:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Read word by word - Joshua 21:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:19
· BSB · 2 occurrences
If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 7:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 9:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 11:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 31:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 11:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
Read word by word - Psalms 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:28
· BSB · 2 occurrences
In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.
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