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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 25 times in 22 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - “But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, H5159 as today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - “Now the LORD was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, H5159 as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - “I prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, H5159 whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - ‘Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance, H5159 whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance H5159 with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, H5159 just as the LORD your God spoke to him.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance H5159 which the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - “And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance H5159 with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - “Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your [fn]town, for he has no portion or inheritance H5159 among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - “The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance H5159 among you, and the alien, the [fn]orphan and the widow who are in your [fn]town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - “However, there will be no poor among you, since the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance H5159 to possess,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance H5159 with Israel; they shall eat the LORD’S offerings by fire and His [fn]portion. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - “They shall have no inheritance H5159 among their [fn]countrymen; the LORD is their inheritance, H5159 as He [fn]promised them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, H5159 and bloodguiltiness be on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance H5159 which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to [fn]possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - “Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, H5159 you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is [fn]accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - “Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance H5159 to [fn]possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1 - “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, H5159 and you possess it and live in it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8 - and we took their land and gave it as an inheritance H5159 to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:9 - “For the LORD’S portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. H5159
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