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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 - Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - But any children born to you in the future will be your own, and they will inherit land within the territories of their brothers Ephraim and Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 - You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain—
the place, O LORD, reserved for your own dwelling,
the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - What’s more, you haven’t brought us into another land flowing with milk and honey. You haven’t given us a new homeland with fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool these men?[fn] We will not come.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - And the LORD said to Aaron, “You priests will receive no allotment of land or share of property among the people of Israel. I am your share and your allotment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, I will compensate them for their service in the Tabernacle. Instead of an allotment of land, I will give them the tithes from the entire land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - Only the Levites may serve at the Tabernacle, and they will be held responsible for any offenses against it. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation. The Levites will receive no allotment of land among the Israelites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - because I have given them the Israelites’ tithes, which have been presented as sacred offerings to the LORD. This will be the Levites’ share. That is why I said they would receive no allotment of land among the Israelites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Give these instructions to the Levites: When you receive from the people of Israel the tithes I have assigned as your allotment, give a tenth of the tithes you receive—a tithe of the tithe—to the LORD as a sacred offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - “Divide the land among the tribes, and distribute the grants of land in proportion to the tribes’ populations, as indicated by the number of names on the list.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - Give the larger tribes more land and the smaller tribes less land, each group receiving a grant in proportion to the size of its population.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - Each grant of land must be assigned by lot among the larger and smaller tribal groups.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - The men from the Levite clans who were one month old or older numbered 23,000. But the Levites were not included in the registration of the rest of the people of Israel because they were not given an allotment of land when it was divided among the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The claim of the daughters of Zelophehad is legitimate. You must give them a grant of land along with their father’s relatives. Assign them the property that would have been given to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - “And give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If a man dies and has no son, then give his inheritance to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9 - And if he has no daughter either, transfer his inheritance to his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - But if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan. This is a legal requirement for the people of Israel, just 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 all the people of Israel have received their portions of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - But we do not claim any of the land on the other side of the Jordan. We would rather live here on the east side and accept this as our grant of land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross the Jordan into Canaan fully armed to fight for the LORD, but our property will be here on this side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - You must distribute the land among the clans by sacred lot and in proportion to their size. A larger portion of land will be allotted to each of the larger clans, and a smaller portion will be allotted to each of the smaller clans. The decision of the sacred lot is final. In this way, the portions of land will be divided among your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Give these instructions to the Israelites: When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your special possession, these will be the boundaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - The families of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received their grants of land

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - on the east side of the Jordan River, across from 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 from their property certain towns to live in, along with the surrounding pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - These towns will come from the property of the people of Israel. The larger tribes will give more towns to the Levites, while the smaller tribes will give fewer. Each tribe will give property in proportion to the size of its land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - They said, “Sir, the LORD instructed you to divide the land by sacred lot among the people of Israel. You were told by the LORD to give the grant of land owned by our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - But if they marry men from another tribe, their grants of land will go with them to the tribe into which they marry. In this way, the total area of our tribal land will be reduced.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - Then when the Year of Jubilee comes, their portion of land will be added to that of the new tribe, causing it to be lost forever to our ancestral tribe.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - None of the territorial land may pass from tribe to tribe, for all the land given to each tribe must remain within the tribe to which it was first allotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - The daughters throughout the tribes of Israel who are in line to inherit property must marry within their tribe, so that all the Israelites will keep their ancestral property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married into the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Thus, their inheritance of land remained within their ancestral tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - Remember that the LORD rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - “But the LORD was angry with me because of you. He vowed that I would not cross the Jordan River into the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - He drove out nations far greater than you, so he could bring you in and give you their land as your special possession, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - I prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - That is why the Levites have no share of property or possession of land among the other Israelite tribes. The LORD himself is their special possession, as the LORD your God told them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - because you have not yet arrived at the place of rest, the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - “You must celebrate there in the presence of the LORD your God with your sons and daughters and all your servants. And remember to include the Levites who live in your towns, for they will receive no allotment of land among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - And do not neglect the Levites in your town, for they will receive no allotment of land among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - Give it to the Levites, who will receive no allotment of land among you, as well as to the foreigners living among you, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, so they can eat and be satisfied. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all your work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - “There should be no poor among you, for the LORD your God will greatly bless you in the land he is giving you as a special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - “Remember that the Levitical priests—that is, the whole of the tribe of Levi—will receive no allotment of land among the other tribes in Israel. Instead, the priests and Levites will eat from the special gifts given to the LORD, for that is their share.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - They will have no land of their own among the Israelites. The LORD himself is their special possession, just as he promised them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - That way you will prevent the death of innocent people in the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession. You will not be held responsible for the death of innocent people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - “When you arrive in the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession, you must never steal anyone’s land by moving the boundary markers your ancestors set up to mark their property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - In those towns that the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing.

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4. LOAD PAGE 4 Psa 136:22–Mal 1:3

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