מוֹרָשָׁהmôwrâshâh
a possession
Pronunciation: mo-raw-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4181
Meanings
a possession (Exodus 6:8; Deuteronomy 33:4; Ezekiel 11:15; Ezekiel 25:10; Ezekiel 33:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 6:8 I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the Lord!’”
- Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses gave us the Lord’s instruction, the special possession of the people of Israel.
- Ezekiel 11:15 “Son of man, the people still left in Jerusalem are talking about you and your relatives and all the people of Israel who are in exile. They are saying, ‘Those people are far away from the Lord, so now he has given their land to us!’
- Ezekiel 25:4 I will allow nomads from the eastern deserts to overrun your country. They will set up their camps among you and pitch their tents on your land. They will harvest all your fruit and drink the milk from your livestock.
- Ezekiel 25:10 And I will hand Moab over to nomads from the eastern deserts, just as I handed over Ammon. Yes, the Ammonites will no longer be counted among the nations.
- Ezekiel 33:24 “Son of man, the scattered remnants of Israel living among the ruined cities keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he gained possession of the entire land. We are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
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).