אֲחֻזָּהʼăchuzzâh
possession (Genesis 47:11; Genesis 17:8; Psalms 2:8; Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 25:10)
Pronunciation: akh-ooz-zaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H272
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 66 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 17:8 And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 23:4 “Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”
- Genesis 23:9 to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family.”
- Genesis 23:20 So the field and the cave were transferred from the Hittites to Abraham for use as a permanent burial place.
- Genesis 36:43 Magdiel, and Iram. These are the leaders of the clans of Edom, listed according to their settlements in the land they occupied. They all descended from Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.
- Genesis 47:11 So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt—the region of Rameses—to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there, just as Pharaoh had commanded.
See every passage
- Genesis 17:8, 23:4, 23:9, 23:20, 36:43, 47:11, 48:4, 49:30, 50:13
- Leviticus 14:34, 25:10, 25:13, 25:24, 25:25, 25:27, 25:28, 25:32, 25:33, 25:34, 25:41, 25:45, 25:46, 27:16, 27:21, 27:22, 27:24, 27:28
- Numbers 27:4, 27:7, 32:5, 32:22, 32:29, 32:32, 35:2, 35:8, 35:28
- Deuteronomy 32:49
- Joshua 21:12, 21:41, 22:4, 22:9, 22:19
- 1 Chronicles 7:28, 9:2
- 2 Chronicles 11:14, 31:1
- Nehemiah 11:3
- Psalms 2:8
- Ezekiel 44:28, 45:5, 45:6, 45:7, 45:8, 46:16, 46:18, 48:20, 48:21, 48:22
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).