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# מוֹרָשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4181

**a possession** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4181/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹרָשָׁה: n.f. possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4181/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a possession;—מ׳ Ex 6:8 + 8 times;—of land Dt 33:4 (poem), Ex 6:8 (P), Ez 11:15; 25:10; 33:24; 36:2, 5; of people Ez 25:4; 36:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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 (8); possession (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.4/#tree)

תּוֹרָ֥ה צִוָּה־לָ֖נוּ מֹשֶׁ֑ה מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה קְהִלַּ֥ת יַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* a.law he.commanded to us Moses a.possession the.assembly of.Jacob

*JPS 1917:* Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

[Ezekiel 25:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.10/#tree)

לִבְנֵי־קֶ֙דֶם֙ עַל־בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֔וֹן וּנְתַתִּ֖יהָ לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֑ה לְמַ֛עַן לֹֽא־תִזָּכֵ֥ר בְּנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] people of.\[the\].east with the.people of.Ammon and I will.give.it to a.possession so.that not it.may.be.remembered the.people of.Ammon among the nations

*JPS 1917:* together with the children of Ammon, unto the children of the east, and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4181/): 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).