Lexicon :: Strong's H5159 - naḥălâ

“Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and Gadites had received the inheritance Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the LORD’s servant had given them:

He did not, however, give any inheritance to the tribe of Levi. This was their inheritance, just as he had promised: the food offerings made to the LORD, the God of Israel.

The border of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its plain. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

This was the inheritance of the Gadites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

But Moses did not give a portion to the tribe of Levi. The LORD, the God of Israel, was their inheritance, just as he had promised them.

because Moses had given the inheritance to the two and a half tribes beyond the Jordan. But he gave no inheritance among them to the Levites.

“On that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land where you have set foot will be an inheritance for you and your descendants forever, because you have followed the LORD my God completely.’

Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as an inheritance.

Therefore, Hebron still belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance today because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, completely.

From Tappuah the border went westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with

the cities set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh ​— ​all these cities with their settlements.

because Manasseh’s daughters received an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of Manasseh’s sons.

Joseph’s descendants said to Joshua, “Why did you give us only one tribal allotment as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has been blessing us greatly.”

“Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me.

“But the Levites among you do not get a portion, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the LORD’s servant gave them.”

The Jordan formed the border on the east side.

This was the inheritance of Benjamin’s descendants, by their clans, according to its surrounding borders.

Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[fn] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath[fn] ​— ​fourteen cities, with their settlements.

This was the inheritance for Benjamin’s descendants by their clans.

Their inheritance included

Beer-sheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

and all the settlements surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah in the south[fn]).

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants by their clans.

The inheritance of Simeon’s descendants was within the territory of Judah’s descendants, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large. So Simeon’s descendants received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.

The third lot came up for Zebulun’s descendants by their clans.

The territory of their inheritance stretched as far as Sarid;

This was the inheritance of Zebulun’s descendants by their clans, these cities, with their settlements.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans, the cities, with their settlements.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Asher’s descendants by their clans, these cities with their settlements.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali’s descendants by their clans, the cities with their settlements.

The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Dan’s descendants by their clans, these cities with their settlements.

When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them.

These were the portions that the priest Eleazar, Joshua son of Nun, and the family heads distributed to the Israelite tribes by lot at Shiloh in the LORD’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

They buried him in his allotted territory at Timnath-serah, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn] It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.