# H270 אָחַז

אָחַז (ʼâchaz), Strong’s H270: to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession) KJV: [phrase] be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten…. Occurs 67 times.

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*ʼâchaz* — to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)

KJV: [phrase] be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten…

Occurs 67 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָחַז 68 vb. grasp, take hold of, take possession
- Qal grasp, take hold of
- Niph. be caught
- Pi. enclose, overlay
- Hoph. fastened

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=13) — Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham…
- [Genesis 25:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=26) — After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…
- [Genesis 34:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=10) — You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
- [Genesis 47:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=27) — Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were…
- [Exodus 4:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=4) — The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of…
- [Exodus 15:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=14) — The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
- [Exodus 15:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=15) — Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan…
- [Numbers 31:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=30) — Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the…
- [Numbers 31:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=47) — even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave…
- [Numbers 32:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=30) — but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”