יְרֵשָׁה
ye.re.shah
possession
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Yərēšāh (H3424): Possession in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word yərēšāh means "possession" and appears only twice in the biblical text. Its rarity in the biblical corpus makes it a specialized term rather than a common vocabulary item for discussing ownership or property. The limited occurrences suggest this particular word form conveyed a specific nuance of possessorship that biblical authors accessed only in particular contexts. Without access to the specific passages where yərēšāh appears, the available lexical data indicates it functioned as a noun denoting something owned or held. The word's low frequency (just two instances) distinguishes it from more common biblical terms for property or inheritance, suggesting it may have carried technical, legal, or contextual significance in the two situations where it was employed. Its existence alongside other Hebrew vocabulary for possession indicates the biblical language had multiple ways to express ownership depending on the particular meaning or situation being described.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text