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Lexicon :: Strong's H5159 - naḥălâ

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נַחֲלָה
Transliteration
naḥălâ
Pronunciation
nakh-al-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From נָחַל (H5157) (in its usual sense)
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TWOT Reference: 1342a

Strong’s Definitions

נַחֲלָה nachălâh, nakh-al-aw'; from H5157 (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion:—heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 222x

The KJV translates Strong's H5159 in the following manner: inheritance (192x), heritage (27x), inherit (2x), possession (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 222x
The KJV translates Strong's H5159 in the following manner: inheritance (192x), heritage (27x), inherit (2x), possession (1x).

  1. possession, property, inheritance, heritage

    1. property

    2. portion, share

    3. inheritance, portion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַחֲלָה nachălâh, nakh-al-aw'; from H5157 (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion:—heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158.
STRONGS H5159: Abbreviations
נַחֲלָה 224 noun feminine possession, property, inheritance (originally gift; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew); — נ׳ Numbers 18:23 +; נַחֲלָת Psalm 16:6 (Ges§ 90g), read נַחֲלָתִי Ew SS We Köii. 1, 425; construct נַחֲלַת Joshua 13:23; suffix נַחֲלָתִי Ruth 4:6; נַחֲלַתְכֶם Psalm 105:11; plural נְחָלוֺת Isaiah 49:8, נְחָלֹת Joshua 19:51;
1. property:
a. in Canaan given by י׳ to Israel, נחלת ישׂראל Judges 20:6; יעקב נ׳ Isaiah 58:14, especially † אֲשֶׁר נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה Deuteronomy 4:21; Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 21:28; Deuteronomy 24:4; Deuteronomy 25:19; Deuteronomy 26:1 (all D); הנחלה אשׁר הנחלתי את עמי Jeremiah 12:14.
b. distributive among tribes: לְ נתן נ׳ Numbers 16:14; Numbers 36:2; Joshua 14:3 (restore לְ), Joshua 17:4, 14; Joshua 19:49 (all P); לְ נתן לנ׳ Deuteronomy 29:7; Joshua 11:23; Joshua 14:13 (all D2); נָָֽחֲלוּ נחלה Joshua 17:6(J); תֵּחָלֵק בּנ׳ Numbers 26:53, 56 (P); נפל בּנחלה Numbers 34:2 (P), Judges 18:1; Ezekiel 47:22; הפיל בנ׳ Joshua 13:6; Joshua 23:4 (D2), Ezekiel 45:1; Ezekiel 47:22, also Ezekiel 47:22 (Co reads ב for מ).
c. nations as possession of the people, Psalm 111:6; of the king Psalm 2:8.
d. Levites have no property in the land Numbers 18:23, 24; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 12:12; their possession is י׳ Numbers 18:20 (P); הוּא נחלתו י׳ Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:2; Joshua 13:14, 33 (all D); the tithes Numbers 18:21, 24, 26 (P).
e. † י׳ takes Israel as his property, 1 Samuel 10:1; 1 Kings 8:53; 2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 19:25; Micah 7:18; Psalm 33:12; Psalm 68:10; Psalm 106:5; עם נחלה Deuteronomy 4:20 (D2); עַמְּךָ וְנַחֲלָֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 9:26, 29 (D), 1 Kings 8:51; || עַם Isaiah 47:6; Joel 2:17; Joel 4:2; Micah 7:14; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 78:62; Psalm 78:71; Psalm 94:5; Psalm 94:14; Psalm 106:40; נחלת י׳ 1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Samuel 20:19; 2 Samuel 21:3; אלהים נ׳ 2 Samuel 14:16; יעקב חבל נ׳ Deuteronomy 32:9; שׁבט נ׳ Jeremiah 10:16 = Jeremiah 51:19, Psalm 74:2; שׁבטי נ׳ Isaiah 63:17; also, the holy mountain Exodus 15:17 (song), temple Jeremiah 12:7; Psalm 79:1, land Jeremiah 2:7; Jeremiah 12:8, 9; Jeremiah 16:18; Jeremiah 50:11.
† 2. portion, share:
a. assigned by God, Isaiah 54:17; Psalm 37:18; Psalm 127:3; elsewhere || חֵלֶק Job 20:29; Job 27:13; Job 31:2.
b. by choice, || חֵלֶק, לנו בבן ישׁי לא נ׳ 2 Samuel 20:1 we have no share in the son of Jesse = 1 Kings 12:16 2 Chronicles 10:16.
3. inheritance (45 times) חֵלֶק וְנַחֲלָה בְּבֵית אָבִּינוּ Genesis 31:14 (E) portion or inheritance in the house of our father; לְ העביר נ׳ Numbers 27:7, 8 (P) cause the inheritance to pass unto; לְ נתן נ׳ Numbers 27:9, 10, 11 (P), Job 42:15; נחלת אבות Numbers 36:3, 8; 1 Kings 21:3, 4; Proverbs 19:14; לבניו תהיה נ׳ Ezekiel 46:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:14

Exodus

15:17

Numbers

16:14; 18:20; 18:21; 18:23; 18:23; 18:24; 18:24; 18:26; 26:53; 26:56; 27:7; 27:8; 27:9; 27:10; 27:11; 34:2; 36:2; 36:3; 36:8

Deuteronomy

4:20; 4:21; 9:26; 9:29; 10:9; 10:9; 12:12; 15:4; 18:2; 19:10; 20:16; 24:4; 25:19; 26:1; 29:7; 32:9

Joshua

11:23; 13:6; 13:14; 13:23; 13:33; 14:3; 14:13; 17:4; 17:6; 17:14; 19:49; 19:51; 23:4

Judges

18:1; 20:6

Ruth

4:6

1 Samuel

10:1; 26:19

2 Samuel

14:16; 20:1; 20:19; 21:3

1 Kings

8:51; 8:53; 12:16; 21:3; 21:4

2 Kings

21:14

2 Chronicles

10:16

Job

20:29; 27:13; 31:2; 42:15

Psalms

2:8; 16:6; 28:9; 33:12; 37:18; 68:10; 74:2; 78:62; 78:71; 79:1; 94:5; 94:14; 105:11; 106:5; 106:40; 111:6; 127:3

Proverbs

19:14

Isaiah

19:25; 47:6; 49:8; 54:17; 58:14; 63:17

Jeremiah

2:7; 10:16; 12:7; 12:8; 12:9; 12:14; 16:18; 50:11; 51:19

Ezekiel

45:1; 46:16; 47:22; 47:22; 47:22

Joel

2:17

Micah

7:14; 7:18

H5159

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5159 matches the Hebrew נַחֲלָה (naḥălâ),
which occurs 222 times in 191 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 31:14–Deu 20:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 - You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode,
the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - And the LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - “To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - “Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9 - And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - For the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s food offerings[fn] as their[fn] inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - “You shall not move your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

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