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Lexicon :: Strong's H272 - 'ăḥuzzâ

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אֲחֻזָּה
Transliteration
'ăḥuzzâ
Pronunciation
akh-ooz-zaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From passive participle from אָחַז (H270)
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TWOT Reference: 64a

Strong’s Definitions

אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh, akh-ooz-zaw'; feminine passive participle from H270; something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land):—possession.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x

The KJV translates Strong's H272 in the following manner: possession(s) (66x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x
The KJV translates Strong's H272 in the following manner: possession(s) (66x).

  1. possession, property

    1. land

    2. possession by inheritance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh, akh-ooz-zaw'; feminine passive participle from H270; something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land):—possession.
STRONGS H272: Abbreviations
† אֲחֻזָּה 66 noun feminine possession — א׳ Genesis 47:11 + 11 times; construct אֲחֻזַּת Genesis 17:8 + 21 times; suffix אֲחֻזָּֽֽֽתְךָ Psalm 2:8; — possession, P & late; of landed property Genesis 47:11; Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 25:10, 13, 25, 27, 28, 33 (houses); Leviticus 25:41; Leviticus 25:45; Leviticus 21:46; Numbers 27:4; Numbers 32:5, 22, 29; Numbers 35:8; Deuteronomy 32:49; Joshua 21:12, 39; Ezekiel 44:28; Ezekiel 45:5, 6, 7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 45:8; Ezekiel 46:18 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 48:20, 21, 22 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 7:28; 1 Chronicles 9:2; 2 Chronicles 11:14; 31:1; Nehemiah 11:3; with אֶרֶץ, אֲחֻזָּה א׳ = land possessed, one's own land Genesis 36:43; Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 25:24; Numbers 35:28; Joshua 22:4, 9, 19 (twice in verse), compare אֲחֻזַּת הָאָרֶץ Leviticus 27:24; with שָׂדֶה, אֲחֻזָּה שׂ׳ Leviticus 27:16, 22, 28, compare Leviticus 27:21; with עִיר, אֲתֻּזָּה ע׳ Leviticus 25:32, 33; אֲחֻזַּת נַחֲלָה = possession by right of inheritance Numbers 27:7; Numbers 32:32, & נַחֲלַת א׳ Numbers 35:2 compare בְּנַחֲלָה א׳ Ezekiel 46:16 (but Co as Numbers 27:7 so B); אֲחֻזַּת קֶבֶר Genesis 23:4, 9, 20; Genesis 49:30; Genesis 50:13; עוֺלם א׳ Genesis 17:8; Genesis 48:4; Leviticus 25:34; in promise to Davidic king וַאֲחֻזָּֽֽֽתְךָ אַסְפֵיאָֿרֶץ Psalm 2:8 (|| נַחֲלָה); figurative of י׳ as portion of Levitical priests Ezekiel 44:28 (|| נַחֲלָה).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:8; 17:8; 23:4; 23:9; 23:20; 36:43; 47:11; 47:11; 48:4; 49:30; 50:13

Leviticus

14:34; 14:34; 25:10; 25:13; 25:24; 25:25; 25:27; 25:28; 25:32; 25:33; 25:33; 25:34; 25:41; 25:45; 27:16; 27:21; 27:22; 27:24; 27:28

Numbers

27:4; 27:7; 27:7; 32:5; 32:22; 32:29; 32:32; 35:2; 35:8; 35:28

Deuteronomy

32:49

Joshua

21:12; 21:39; 22:4; 22:9; 22:19

1 Chronicles

7:28; 9:2

2 Chronicles

11:14; 31:1

Nehemiah

11:3

Psalms

2:8; 2:8

Ezekiel

44:28; 44:28; 45:5; 45:6; 45:7; 45:8; 46:16; 46:18; 48:20; 48:21; 48:22

H272

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H272 matches the Hebrew אֲחֻזָּה ('ăḥuzzâ),
which occurs 66 times in 58 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 17:8–Eze 45:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - “I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger [moving from place to place], all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession [of property]; and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a stranger and a sojourner (resident alien) among you; give (sell) me property for a burial place among you so that I may bury my dead [in the proper manner].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - so that he may give (sell) me the cave of Machpelah which he owns—it is at the end of his field; let him give it to me here in your presence for the full price as a burial site [which I may keep forever among you].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - The field and the cave in it were deeded over to Abraham by the Hittites as a [permanent] possession and burial place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - Magdiel, and Iram. These are the tribal chiefs of Edom (that is, of Esau the father of the Edomites), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a great company of people, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave in the field at Machpelah, east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, that Abraham bought, along with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 -

“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put [fn]a mark of leprosy on a house in your land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - ‘And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and [fn]proclaim freedom [for the slaves] throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee (year of remission) for you, and each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property [that was sold to another because of poverty], and each of you shall return to his family [from whom he was separated by bondage].

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 -

‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - ‘So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 -

‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his [ancestral] property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if [fn]he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses in the cities which they possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘Therefore, what is [purchased] from the Levites may be redeemed [by a Levite], and the house that was sold in the city they possess reverts in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their [ancestral] property among the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - ‘But the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - and then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall go back to his own family and return to the property of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘Moreover, from the children of the strangers who live as aliens among you, from them you may buy slaves and from their families who are with you, whom they have produced in your land; they may become your possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - ‘You may even bequeath them as an inheritance to your children after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your fellow countrymen, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with harshness (severity, oppression).

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 -

‘And if a man consecrates to the LORD part of a field of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it; a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - ‘When the field reverts in the Jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field set apart (devoted); the priest shall possess it as his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - ‘Or if a man consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not part of the field of his [ancestral] property,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - ‘In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was purchased, to whom the land belonged [as his ancestral inheritance].

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘But nothing that a man [fn]sets apart [that is, devotes as an offering] to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or of animal or of the fields of his own property, shall be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction (banned, cursed) is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - “Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession (land) among our father’s brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The request of the daughters of Zelophehad is justified. You shall certainly give them a possession as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan [River].”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land [west of the Jordan] is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you shall return and be blameless [in this matter] before the LORD and before Israel, and this land [east of the Jordan] shall be yours as a possession before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead [east of the Jordan River] as a possession;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - “We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on [the east] side of the Jordan may be ours.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the Israelites to give to the Levites cities to live in from the inheritance of their possession; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many and from the smaller tribes few; each tribe shall give [at least some] of its cities to the Levites in proportion to [the size of] its inheritance which it possesses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because the offender should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the offender shall return to the land of his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and its villages they had given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 -

All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the property of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - “And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as He has promised them; so turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the [east side of the] Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the sons (descendants) of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the [other] sons (western tribes) of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their own which they had possessed, in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then cross into the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD’S tabernacle is situated, and settle down among us. But do not rebel against the LORD, or rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves, besides the altar of the LORD our God [at Shiloh].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 -

Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, and Shechem, and as far as [fn]Ayyah with all their towns,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 -

Now the first [of the returned exiles] who lived [again] in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim (temple servants).

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the LORD.

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Now when all of this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and smashed the [pagan] pillars (obelisks, memorial stones) in pieces, cut down the Asherim (wooden symbols of a female deity), and tore down the high places and the altars [of idolatry] throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons (descendants) of Israel returned to their own cities, each to his own property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 -

These are the heads of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah everyone lived on his property in their cities—the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 -

‘Ask of Me, and I will assuredly give [You] the nations as Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth as Your possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 -

“It [their ministry to Me] shall be as an inheritance to them, for I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no property (land) in Israel, for I am their possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - “And another portion of land 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple (house), and they shall possess it as a place in which to live.

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