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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)
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 - “And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession H272; and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a sojourner and a foreign resident among you; give me a possession H272 for a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in [fn]your presence as a possession H272 for a burial site.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - So the field and the cave that is in it [fn]were deeded over to Abraham for a possession H272 for a burial site by the sons of Heth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of [fn]the Edomites), according to their places of habitation in the land of their possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession H272 in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession H272.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession H272 for a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site H272 from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 -

“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you for a possession H272, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession H272,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - ‘You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and proclaim [fn]a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, [fn]and each of you shall return to his own possession H272 of land, [fn]and each of you shall return to his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 -

‘On this year of jubilee, each of you shall return to his own possession H272 of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - ‘Thus for every [fn]piece of land of your possession H272, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 -

‘If a brother of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his possession H272 of land, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - then he shall calculate the years since its sale and return the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his possession H272 of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if [fn]he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall [fn]revert, that he may return to his possession H272 of land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - ‘As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘What, therefore, [fn]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [fn]in the city of [fn]their possession H272 [fn]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession H272 among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - ‘But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - ‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession H272 of the land of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘And also you may acquire from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - ‘You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession H272; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another with brutality.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 -

‘Again, if a man sets apart as holy to Yahweh a portion of the fields of his own possession H272, then your valuation shall be [fn]proportionate to the seed needed for it: a [fn]homer of barley seed at [fn]fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - and it will be that when it [fn]reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to Yahweh, like a field that is [fn]devoted; it shall be for the priest as his possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - ‘Or if he sets apart as holy to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not a portion of the field of his own possession H272,

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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 he bought it, to whom the possession H272 of the land belongs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man [fn]devotes to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own possession H272, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything [fn]devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - “Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession H272 among our father’s brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a possession H272 for an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and you shall have the inheritance of their father pass on to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession H272; do not take us across the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward Yahweh and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession H272 before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession H272;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - “We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession H272 of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession H272 cities to live in; 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 - “Now as for the cities which you shall give from the possession H272 of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession H272.

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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 [fn]opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession H272.

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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 gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 -

All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession H272 of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - “And now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; so now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession H272, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - Then the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the sons of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession H272 which they had possessed, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘If, however, the land of your possession H272 is unclean, then [fn]cross into the land of the possession H272 of Yahweh, where the tabernacle of Yahweh dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves, besides the altar of Yahweh our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 -

Now their possessions H272 and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east [fn]Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as [fn]Ayyah with its towns,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 -

Now the first who lived in their possessions H272 in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the [fn]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 possession H272 of land and went to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from ministering as priests to Yahweh—

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Now when all this was completed, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, shattered the pillars, cut the [fn]Asherim in pieces, and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until the destruction was completed. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 -

Now these are the heads of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each lived in his own possession H272 in their cities—[fn]the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the [fn]temple servants, and the sons of Solomon’s servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 -

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

And the ends of the earth as Your possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 -

“And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession H272 in Israel—I am their possession H272.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - “And an area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession H272 as [fn]cities to dwell in.

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