H272 - אֲחֻזָּה (ʼăchuzzâh)

H272 אֲחֻזָּה (ʼăchuzzâh) akh-ooz-zaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

possession

Strong's Definition

something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)

Derivation: feminine passive participle from H270 (אָחַז);

KJV Usage: possession.

TWOT Reference: 64a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) possession, property

1a) land

1b) possession by inheritance

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2697 G2817

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) possession, property 1a) land 1b) possession by inheritance

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲחֻזָּה ăchûzzâh BDB Definition: 1) possession, property 1a) land 1b) possession by inheritance Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from passive participle from H270 Same Word by TWOT Number: 64a Total KJV Occurrences: 68

Bible Occurrences (58)

17:8 23:4 23:9 23:20 36:43 47:11 48:4 49:30 50:13

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

27:4 27:7 32:5 32:22 32:29 32:32 35:2 35:8 35:28

32:49

21:12 21:41 22:4 22:9 22:19

7:28 9:2

11:14 31:1

11:3

2:8

44:28 45:5 45:6 45:7 45:8 46:16 46:18 48:20 48:21 48:22

Genesis 17:8

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing— all the land of Canaan— as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 23:4

I [am] a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead....

Genesis 23:9

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that [I may have] a burial site.

Genesis 23:20

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites... to Abraham as a burial... site.

Genesis 36:43

Magdiel,... and Iram. These [were] the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 47:11

So Joseph settled his father and brothers... in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 48:4

and told me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.

Genesis 49:30

The cave is in the field of Machpelah near... Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.