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# יְרֵשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3424

**a possession** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3424/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרֵשָׁה: n.f. possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3424/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a possession, used of nation וְהָיָה אֱדוֹם יְרֵשַׁה וְהָיָה יְרֵשָׁה שֵׂעִיר אֹיְבָיו Nu 24:18 (JE).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a possession (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.18/#tree)

וְהָיָ֨ה אֱד֜וֹם יְרֵשָׁ֗ה וְהָיָ֧ה יְרֵשָׁ֛ה שֵׂעִ֖יר אֹיְבָ֑יו וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עֹ֥שֶׂה חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be Edom a.possession and it.will.be a.possession Seir enemies its and Israel \[will.be\].doing strength

*JPS 1917:* And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3424/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).