Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
possession
Usage: possession, inheritance
Yerushshah means “something occupied” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3425 — mogis (“hardly”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3425 יְרוּשָּׁה (yrushah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yrushah (yer-oosh-shaw') n-f. 1. something occupied 2. a conquest It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include possession, also, inheritance, and heritage. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yrushah (yer-oosh-shaw') n-f. 1. something occupied 2. a conquest 3. also a patrimony [from H3423] KJV: heritage, inheritance, possession. Root(s): H3423
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possession
Usage: possession, inheritance
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yrushah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3425.
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3425, grouped by book.
Yerushshah (Strong's H3425) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "something occupied". yrushah (yer-oosh-shaw') n-f. 1. something occupied 2. a conquest
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H3425 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3425 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as possession, also, inheritance, and heritage. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.