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Ezekiel 44

Ezek. 44:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it shall be unto them for an inheritance
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
: In am their inheritance
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
: and ye shall give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
them no possession
'achuzzah (Hebrew #272)
something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)
KJV usage: possession.
Pronounce: akh-ooz-zaw'
Origin: feminine passive participle from 270
in Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
: I am their possession
'achuzzah (Hebrew #272)
something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)
KJV usage: possession.
Pronounce: akh-ooz-zaw'
Origin: feminine passive participle from 270
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I am their inheritance.
Ezek. 45:4• 4This is the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests who do the service of the sanctuary, who draw near to serve Jehovah, and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. (Ezek. 45:4)
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Ezek. 48:9‑11• 9The heave-offering that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
10And for them, for the priests, shall be the holy heave-offering, toward the north five and twenty thousand, and toward the west the breadth ten thousand, and toward the east the breadth ten thousand, and toward the south the length five and twenty thousand: and the sanctuary of Jehovah shall be in the midst of it.
11It shall be for the priests that are hallowed of the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
(Ezek. 48:9‑11)
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Num. 18:20• 20And Jehovah said to Aaron, In their land thou shalt have no inheritance, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. (Num. 18:20)
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Deut. 10:9• 9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God told him. (Deut. 10:9)
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Deut. 18:1‑2• 1The priests, the Levites, and the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: Jehovah's offerings by fire, and his inheritance shall they eat,
2but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah, he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
(Deut. 18:1‑2)
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Josh. 13:14,33• 14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance: the offerings by fire of Jehovah the God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to them.
33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them.
(Josh. 13:14,33)
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1 Peter 5:2‑4• 2shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;
3not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.
4And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
(1 Peter 5:2‑4)
 They are to be content with Jehovah as their inheritance, instead of the carnal portion of an Israelite. (Notes on Ezekiel 44:15-31 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it shall be unto them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.