morasha · possession

What it means

morasha (מוֹרָשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “possession”.

Land received to be held.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Land given as one's own.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• as a possession ×6
• possession ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Ezekiel×7

• Exodus 6:8

  I will bring you to the land which I raised my hand swearing to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you as a possession. I am YHWH.’”

• Deuteronomy 33:4

  An instruction Moses commanded us, a possession of the assembly of Jacob.

• Ezekiel 11:15

  “Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all the house of Israel, all of it, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from YHWH; to us it has been given, the land, as a possession.’

• Ezekiel 25:4

  therefore, look, I am giving you to the sons of the east as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you and place their dwellings in you; they will eat your fruit, and they will drink your milk.

• Ezekiel 25:10

  to the sons of the east, along with the sons of Ammon; and I will give it as a possession, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

• Ezekiel 33:24

  “Son of man, the inhabitants of these ruins on the ground of Israel are saying thus: ‘Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; and we are many; to us the land has been given as a possession.’

• Ezekiel 36:2

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because the enemy said against you, “Aha! And the eternal high places have become a possession for us,”

• Ezekiel 36:3

  therefore prophesy and say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Precisely because of making you desolate and hounding you from all around, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations, and you have come up on the lip of the tongue and into the slander of the people,

• Ezekiel 36:5

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with the joy of a whole heart, with contempt of soul, so that its pastureland might be booty.