{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H270",
  "lemma": "אָחַז",
  "transliteration": "ʼâchaz",
  "definition": "to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)",
  "kjv": "[phrase] be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten…",
  "occurrences": 67,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אָחַז 68 vb. grasp, take hold of, take possession",
    "Qal grasp, take hold of",
    "Niph. be caught",
    "Pi. enclose, overlay",
    "Hoph. fastened"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:13",
      "text": "Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 25:26",
      "text": "After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:10",
      "text": "You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 47:27",
      "text": "Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 4:4",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:14",
      "text": "The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:15",
      "text": "Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 31:30",
      "text": "Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 31:47",
      "text": "even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=47"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 32:30",
      "text": "but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=30"
    }
  ],
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