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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 the whole land of Canaan - the land where you are now residing - to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - "I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - He said to me, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - "When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - "'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - "'If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem - the sale of a house which is his property in a city - must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - "'If a man consecrates to the LORD some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest's property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - "'If he consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - "'Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the LORD from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated 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 lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - "The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father's relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - So they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD's sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - Moses said to them: "If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD's presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross armed in the LORD's presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - "Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - "Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - (Now the city's fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD's servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the LORD's command through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD's own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don't rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their property and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding towns, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its surrounding towns to the west, and Shechem and its surrounding towns as far as Ayyah and its surrounding towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the LORD's priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - "'This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live.

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