Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
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Possess
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1 Thessalonians 4:4
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
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Genesis
22 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
44 verses
Deuteronomy
5250 verses
Joshua
65 verses
Judges
64 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Nehemiah
22 verses
Job
22 verses
Isaiah
66 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
55 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Amos
22 verses
Obadiah
63 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zephaniah
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
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יָרַשׁ
yârash · yaw-rash'
95 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin
Strong's KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 22:17Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:6
Open full H3423 profile →נָחַל
nâchal · naw-khal'
5 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate
Strong's KJV usage: divide, have (inheritance), take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, have, leave for, take (for)) inheritance, (have in, cause to, be made to) possess(-ion).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 7:3Strong's last: Zechariah 8:12
Open full H5157 profile →κτάομαι
ktáomai · ktah'-om-ahee
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own)
Strong's KJV usage: :--obtain, possess, provide, purchase.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 18:12Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 4:4
Open full G2932 profile →חֲסַן
chăçan · khas-an'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to hold in occupancy
Strong's KJV usage: possess.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 7:18Strong's last: Daniel 7:18
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H3423
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
H3423
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
H3423
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
H3423
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
H3423
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
H3423
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
H3423
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
H3423
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
H3423
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
H3423
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
H3423
Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
H3423
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
H3423
For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
H3423
For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
H3423
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
H3423
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
H3423
When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
H3423
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
H3423
When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
H3423
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
H3423
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
H3423
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
H3423
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
H3423
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
H3423
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
English meaning and historical usage.
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possess
POSSESS', verb transitive [Latin possessus, possideo, a compound of po, a Russian preposition, perhaps by, and sedeo, to sit; to sit in or on.
1. To have the just and legal title, ownership or property of a thing; to own; to hold the title of, as the rightful proprietor, or to hold both the title and the thing. A man may possess the farm which he cultivates, or he may possess an estate in a foreign country, not in his own occupation. He may possess many farms which are occupied by tenants. In this as in other cases, the original sense of the word is enlarged, the holding or tenure being applied to the title or right, as well as to the thing itself.
2. To hold; to occupy without title or ownership.
I raise up the Chaldeans, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. Habakkuk 1:6.
Neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own. Acts 4:32.
3. To have; to occupy. The love of the world usually possesses the heart.
4. To seize; to gain; to obtain the occupation of.
The English marched towards the river Eske, intending to possess a hill called Under-Eske.
5. To have power over; as an invisible agent or spirit.
Luke 8:36.
Beware what spirit rages in your breast;
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possess'd.
6. To affect by some power.
Let not your ears despise my tongue,
Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
That ever yet they heard.
To possess of, or with, more properly to possess of, is to give possession, command or occupancy.
Of fortune's favor long possess'd
This possesses us of the most valuable blessing of human life, friendship.
To possess one's self of, to take or gain possession or command; to make one's self master of.
We possessed ourselves of the kingdom of Naples.
To possess with, to furnish or fill with something permanent; or to be retained.
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention.
If they are possessed with honest minds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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