Word Study · Strong's H4181 · Hebrew
מוֹרָשָׁה
morashah
mo-raw-shaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: môwrâshâh
“a possession”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a possession
Rendered in the KJV as
heritage, inheritance, possession.
- 9occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 9 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- לְמוֹרָשָֽׁה׃ ס2
- מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה2
- לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֗ה1
- לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֑ה1
- לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֖ה1
- לְמ֨וֹרָשָׁ֜ה1
- מֽוֹרָשָׁה֙1
How it is rendered · 3
- to a possession4
- a possession3
- into a possession2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- preposition + noun · feminine singular6
- noun · feminine singular3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Ncfsa · 6
- HNcfsa · 3
All 9, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Ezekiel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Ezekiel7 occurrences
- Ezekiel 11:15לְמוֹרָשָֽׁה׃ סlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singular“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’here: to a possession
- Ezekiel 25:4לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֗הlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartherefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.here: to a possession
- Ezekiel 25:10לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֑הlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singularI will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.here: to a possession
- Ezekiel 33:24לְמוֹרָשָֽׁה׃ סlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singular“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’here: to a possession
- Ezekiel 36:2לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֖הlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singularThis is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’here: into a possession
- Ezekiel 36:3מֽוֹרָשָׁה֙morashahnoun · feminine singulartherefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,here: a possession
- Ezekiel 36:5לְמ֨וֹרָשָׁ֜הlemorashahpreposition + noun · feminine singularTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.here: into a possession