possession
a.chuz.zah denotes a held possession, especially land or an inherited allotment, and sometimes people treated as inheritable property.
The term most often identifies land, fields, cities, or territorial portions held by a person, family, tribe, or group and subject to inheritance, return, or transfer. It also names a burial property and, in regulations concerning non-Israelite servants, persons held and passed on as property.
Senses in use
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Held land or territorial allotment · dominant
The construct forms regularly mark land, a field, city, or territory as belonging to a stated holder or group. In Leviticus 25:25 the APB renders a poor man's sale of part of what he holds, while Leviticus 25:28 describes its return in the jubilee; Ezekiel 46:18 places the term in the warning not to deprive people of their holdings.
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Property designated for burial · occasional
In the negotiations and later burial notices concerning the cave and field of Machpelah, construct forms identify a grave or burial place as acquired property. In Genesis 23:4 the APB renders the request for a place to bury the dead, and Genesis 23:20 describes the field and cave as established for that purpose.
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Persons held as inheritable property · rare
In regulations about people bought from sojourners, the absolute singular form occurs where those persons are to be retained and passed to sons. In Leviticus 25:45 the APB says they "shall be a possession for you," and Leviticus 25:46 continues with inheritance by sons after them.
In the Anselm Paraphrase: Across these verses the APB commonly uses "possession" for land, cities, and inherited holdings, and it adds qualifiers such as "burial possession" and "ancestral possession" where the clause specifies them. Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings show the verse context rather than a fixed English equivalent in every occurrence.