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Lexicon :: Strong's H5159 - naḥălâ

Aa
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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - And any other offspring which you have after them, will be yours, and will be named after their brothers in their heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 - You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - And were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their property was kept in the tribe of their father's family

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

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