yerusha · possession

What it means

yerusha (יְרֻשָּׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “possession”.

Land that is taken and becomes one's own; also what is received from one's fathers.

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. The land God gives a people to occupy and make their own.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• as a possession ×7
• possession ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×7
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 2:5

  do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even the treading of the sole of a foot, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  YHWH said to me, “Do not harass Moab or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:12

  In Seir the Horites lived formerly, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and lived in their place, just as Israel did to the land of its possession, which YHWH gave them.)

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  and you will come near opposite the sons of Ammon. Do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 3:20

  until YHWH gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall return, each to his possession that I have given you.”

• Joshua 1:15

  until YHWH gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

• Joshua 12:6

  Moses the servant of YHWH and the sons of Israel struck them, and Moses the servant of YHWH gave it as a possession to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 12:7

  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

• Judges 21:17

  And they said, “There must be a possession for those who escaped of Benjamin, and a tribe must not be blotted out from Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 20:11

  look, they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us to possess.

• Psalms 61:5

  For you, Elohim, have heard my vows; you have given the possession of those who fear your name.

• Jeremiah 32:8

  And Hanamel my uncle's son came to me according to the word of YHWH to the court of the guard, and said to me, ‘Buy, please, my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that it was the word of YHWH.

And 2 more times.