יְרֻשָּׁה
inheritance
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (57%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 6 times (43%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3425 appears — 12 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 5 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:5 יְרֻשָּׁ֣ה n c fs don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:9 יְרֻשָּׁ֔ה יְרֻשָּֽׁה n c fs n c fs Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 יְרֻשָּׁת֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Deuteronomy 2:19 יְרֻשָּׁ֔ה יְרֻשָּֽׁה n c fs n c fs and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 3:20 לִֽ/ירֻשָּׁת֔/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 1:15 יְרֻשַּׁתְ/כֶם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp until Yahweh have given your brothers rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 12:6 יְרֻשָּׁ֗ה n c fs Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them: and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 12:7 יְרֻשָּׁ֖ה n c fs These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Judges 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ירשה (yᵉrushshâh) means “inheritance.” Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 2:5. Spanning 12 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Deuteronomy (42% of all occurrences). From the same root come ירש, ירשה and מורש. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3425 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 5 verses 42%
- Joshua 3 verses 25%
- Judges 1 verse 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 42%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 42%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Possession 10×
- American Standard Version: Possession 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Possession 6×, Inheritance 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Possession 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3425 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3425 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3425 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3425 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- possession, inheritance
Word origin
n.f. (a) possession, inheritance;—abs. יר׳ Dt 2:5 + 7 times, cstr. יְרֻשַּׁת Ju 21:17 ψ 61:6 (but on text v. infr.); sf. יְרֻשָּֽׁתְךָ 2 Ch 20:11; יְרֻשָּׁתוֹ Dt 2:12; 3:20; יְרֻשַּׁתְכֶם Jos 1:15;—used of land Dt 2:5, 9(×2), 19(×2); 3:20; אֶרֶץ יְרֻשָּׁתוֹ 2:12 the land of his possession, so Jos 1:15; further, 12:6, 7 Ju 21:17 (but BuRS 152 נִשְׁאֲרָה), Je 32:8 ψ 61:6 (but אֲרֶשֶׁת request, cf. Checrit. n.), 2 Ch 20:11.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ירש (yârash) (H3423) — to inherit.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H3425 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְרֻשָּׁ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 2:9 | 2 |
| יְרֻשָּֽׁה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 2:9 | 2 |
| הַ/יְרֻשָּׁ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 32:8 | 1 |
| יְ֝רֻשַּׁ֗ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 61:5 | 1 |
| יְרֻשַּׁ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Judges 21:17 | 1 |
| יְרֻשַּׁתְ/כֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Joshua 1:15 | 1 |
| יְרֻשָּׁ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 12:7 | 1 |
| יְרֻשָּׁ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 12:6 | 1 |
| יְרֻשָּׁ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 2:5 | 1 |
| יְרֻשָּׁת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 2:12 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ירֻשָּׁת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 3:20 | 1 |
| מִ/יְּרֻשָּׁתְ/ךָ֖ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 20:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3425, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ירשה yᵉrêshâh H3424 possession
- מורש môwrâsh H4180 possession
- רשת resheth H7568 net
- תירוש tîyrôwsh H8492 wine
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
