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title: מוֹרָשָׁה — a possession · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוֹרָשָׁה (4181), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: a possession. BDB 1906: n.f. possession. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוֹרָשָׁה

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«מוֹרָשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a possession** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 4181 · **BDB:** מוֹרָשָׁה

### Glosses

a.possession (8); possession (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מוֹרָשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4181/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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;

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