Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
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Possession
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Ephesians 1:14
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
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אֲחֻזָּה
ʼăchuzzâh · akh-ooz-zaw'
64 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences
something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)
Strong's KJV usage: possession.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 17:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:22
Open full H272 profile →יְרֻשָּׁה
yᵉrushshâh · yer-oosh-shaw'
11 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
something occupied; a conquest; also a patrimony
Strong's KJV usage: heritage, inheritance, possession.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 2:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 20:11
Open full H3425 profile →יָרַשׁ
yârash · yaw-rash'
6 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: 1 Kings 21:15Strong's last: Psalms 83:12
Open full H3423 profile →מוֹרָשָׁה
môwrâshâh · mo-raw-shaw'
6 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a possession
Strong's KJV usage: heritage, inheritance, possession.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 11:15Strong's last: Ezekiel 36:5
Open full H4181 profile →מִקְנֶה
miqneh · mik-neh'
3 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
something bought, i.e. property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
Strong's KJV usage: cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 26:14Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 28:1
Open full H4735 profile →κατάσχεσις
katáschesis · kat-as'-khes-is
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a holding down, i.e. occupancy
Strong's KJV usage: :--possession.
Strong's first: Acts 7:5Strong's last: Acts 7:45
Open full G2697 profile →יְרֵשָׁה
yᵉrêshâh · yer-ay-shaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
occupancy
Strong's KJV usage: possession.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:18Strong's last: Numbers 24:18
Open full H3424 profile →κτῆμα
ktēma · ktay'-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an acquirement, i.e. estate
Strong's KJV usage: :--possession.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 5:1Strong's last: Acts 5:1
Open full G2933 profile →περιποίησις
peripoíēsis · per-ee-poy'-ay-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
acquisition (the act or the thing); by extension, preservation
Strong's KJV usage: :--obtain(-ing), peculiar, purchased, possession, saving.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ephesians 1:14Strong's last: Ephesians 1:14
Open full G4047 profile →אָחַז
ʼâchaz · aw-khaz'
1 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
Strong's KJV usage: be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 22:19Strong's last: Joshua 22:19
Open full H270 profile →מוֹרָשׁ
môwrâsh · mo-rawsh'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a possession; figuratively, delight
Strong's KJV usage: possession, thought.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 14:23Strong's last: Isaiah 14:23
Open full H4180 profile →מִקְנָה
miqnâh · mik-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a buying, i.e. acquisition; concretely, a piece of property (land or living); also the sum paid
Strong's KJV usage: (he that is) bought, possession, piece, purchase.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 23:18Strong's last: Genesis 23:18
Open full H4736 profile →נָחַל
nâchal · naw-khal'
1 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: Proverbs 28:10Strong's last: Proverbs 28:10
Open full H5157 profile →נַחֲלָה
nachălâh · nakh-al-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form222 total Strong's occurrences
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
Strong's KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 26:56Strong's last: Numbers 26:56
Open full H5159 profile →רֶגֶל
regel · reh'-gel
1 times translated as this KJV form239 total Strong's occurrences
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
Strong's KJV usage: × be able to endure, × according as, × after, × coming, × follow, (broken-)foot(-ed, -stool), × great toe, × haunt, × journey, leg, piss, possession, time.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 11:6Strong's last: Deuteronomy 11:6
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H272
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
H272
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
H272
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
H272
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
H272
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
H272
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
H272
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
H272
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
H272
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
H272
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
H272
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
H272
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
H272
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
H272
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
H272
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
H272
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
H272
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
H272
And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
H272
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
H272
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
English meaning and historical usage.
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possession
POSSES'SION, noun The having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy, either rightful or wrongful. One man may have the possession of a thing, and another may have the right of possession or property.
If the possession is severed from the property; if A has the right of property, and B by unlawful means has gained possession this is an injury to adjective This is a bare or naked possession
In bailment, the bailee, who receives goods to convey, or to keep for a time, has the possession of the goods, and a temporary right over them, but not the property. Property in possession includes both the right and the occupation. Long undisturbed possession is presumptive proof of right or property in the possessor.
1. The thing possessed; land, estate or goods owned; as foreign possessions.
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Obadiah 1:17.
When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matthew 19:22.
2. Any thing valuable possessed or enjoyed. Christian peace of mind is the best possession of life.
3. The state of being under the power of demons or invisible beings; madness; lunacy; as demoniacal possession
Writ of possession a precept directing a sheriff to put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered in ejectment.
To take possession to enter on, or to bring within one's power or occupancy.
To give possession to put in another's power or occupancy.
POSSES'SION, verb transitive To invest with property. [Not used.]
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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