'Possession' in the Bible
I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger [moving from place to place], all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession [of property]; and I will be their God.”
to Abraham as his possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who were entering at the gate of his city.
So Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a possession in Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.
and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a great company of people, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Holding (116 instances)
- Insanity (8 instances)
- Ownership (5 instances)
- Possession (347 instances)
- Self-Control (15 instances)
- Self-Will (5 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Daimonizomai
Yarash
Nachal
Qanah
Peripoiesis