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Lexicon :: Strong's H272 - 'ăḥuzzâ

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

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