possession
mo.ra.shah designates something held, granted, or claimed as the property of a person or group.
The term consistently marks something treated as belonging to a person or group: a law associated with Jacob’s assembly, land given to Israel or claimed by others, and places or peoples made over to another group. The surrounding clauses emphasize grant, acquisition, claim, or resulting control rather than distinct lexical uses.
Senses in use
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Something held or assigned as property · dominant
The singular absolute noun occurs for what is given or held by a group. In Exodus 6:8 the APB renders the land as given to Israel “as a possession”; in Deuteronomy 33:4 it renders the law as belonging to the assembly of Jacob; and in Ezekiel 25:4, Ezekiel 25:10, Ezekiel 36:3, and Ezekiel 36:5 it describes peoples, territory, or land made over to others as property.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses “possession” or “as a possession” for the relevant clauses. In Ezekiel 33:24 it also says that Abraham “took possession” of the land, so that wording should not be treated as a separate rendering of the noun.