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Concordances
Scofield Reference Index
• Possession
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Possession of Land
• Epilepsy?: & Demon Possession, Lunatic
• Demon Possession, Demoniacs: & Epilepsy
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Possessed
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Possessions
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Possession of the Devil
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Possession, Demon
• Demon Possession
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Possession
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Possessions
• Possession (2)
• Possession
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King James Dictionary
• Possession
• Possessing
• Possessed
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Peculiar (People), Purchased Possession
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Possessed of the Devil
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Possession
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Possess, Possession
• Possession
• Possess
Webster Dictionary
• Self-Possession
• Self-Possessed
• Possessively
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Possession
• Possession (Law)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Possess; Possession
• Possession, Demoniacal
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Possession
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Possessed with Devils
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Demonical Possession
Lexicons
• ܐܽܘܚܕ݂ܳܢܳܐ
• ܕ݁ܰܝܘܳܢܳܐ
• ܝܽܘܪܬ݁ܳܢܳܐ
•   (only first 3 shown)
• δαιμονίζομαι
• ἔχω
• κατάσχεσις
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• אָחוזּ אָחַז, , אָחַז
• אֲחֻזָּה
• אֵת , מֵאֵת
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(1):

(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; - said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

(2):

(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

(3):

(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.

(4):

(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.

(5):

(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; - followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.