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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3425

יְרֻשָּׁה

yerushshahyer-oosh-shaw'

possession

14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: yᵉrushshâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3425is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3425

something occupied; a conquest; also a patrimony

The King James renders it: heritage, inheritance, possession.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

yerushshah is rendered "possession". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 2:5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

Deuteronomy 2:5יְרֻשָּׁ֣ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's fourteen uses are in Deuteronomy.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a possession7
  • a possession of1
  • from possession your1
  • possession its1
  • possession of1
  • possession your1
  • the possession1
  • to possession his1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 14, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יְרֻשָּׁ֔ה2
  • יְרֻשָּֽׁה׃2
  • הַיְרֻשָּׁ֛ה1
  • יְרֻשָּׁ֣ה1
  • יְרֻשָּׁ֗ה1
  • יְרֻשָּׁ֖ה1
  • יְ֝רֻשַּׁ֗ת1
  • יְרֻשַּׁ֥ת1
  • יְרֻשָּׁת֔וֹ1
  • יְרֻשַּׁתְכֶם֙1
  • לִֽירֻשָּׁת֔וֹ1
  • מִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָ֖1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp2mp
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa

Deuteronomy

seven uses
  • Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

    Deuteronomy 2:5

    • יְרֻשָּׁ֣הyerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
  • Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

    Deuteronomy 2:9

    • יְרֻשָּׁ֔הyerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
    • יְרֻשָּֽׁה׃yerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
  • The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

    Deuteronomy 2:12

    • יְרֻשָּׁת֔וֹyerushatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: possession its
  • But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

    Deuteronomy 2:19

    • יְרֻשָּׁ֔הyerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
    • יְרֻשָּֽׁה׃yerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
  • until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”

    Deuteronomy 3:20

    • לִֽירֻשָּׁת֔וֹlirushatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to possession his

Joshua

three uses
  • until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”

    Joshua 1:15

    • יְרֻשַּׁתְכֶם֙yerushatkhemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: possession your
  • Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    Joshua 12:6

    • יְרֻשָּׁ֗הyerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
  • And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

    Joshua 12:7

    • יְרֻשָּׁ֖הyerushahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession

Judges

one use
  • They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

    Judges 21:17

    • יְרֻשַּׁ֥תyerushatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a possession of

2 Chronicles

one use
  • See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

    2 Chronicles 20:11

    • מִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָ֖miyerushatekhapreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from possession your

Psalms

one use
  • For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance reserved for those who fear Your name.

    Psalms 61:5

    • יְ֝רֻשַּׁ֗תyerushatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: possession of

Jeremiah

one use
  • Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

    Jeremiah 32:8

    • הַיְרֻשָּׁ֛הhayrushahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the possession

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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