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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 4 / 4 (Psa 136:22–Mal 1:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:22 - Even a heritage H5159 to Israel His servant,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2 - A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully,
And will share in the inheritance H5159 among brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:14 - House and wealth are an inheritance H5159 from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:21 - An inheritance H5159 gained hurriedly at the beginning
Will not be blessed in the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:11 - Wisdom along with an inheritance H5159 is good
And an advantage to those who see the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25 - whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.” H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - “I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage H5159
And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 - Thus says the LORD,
“In a favorable time I have answered You,
And in a day of salvation I have helped You;
And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people,
To [fn]restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages; H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that [fn]accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage H5159 of the servants of the LORD,
And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:14 - Then you will take delight in the LORD,
And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage H5159 of Jacob your father,
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You?
Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - “I brought you into the fruitful land
To eat its fruit and its good things.
But you came and defiled My land,
And My inheritance H5159 you made an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among [fn]My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most beautiful inheritance H5159 of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16 - The portion of Jacob is not like these;
For the [fn]Maker of all is He,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; H5159
The LORD of hosts is His name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:7 - “I have forsaken My house,
I have abandoned My inheritance; H5159
I have given the beloved of My soul
Into the hand of her enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 - “My inheritance H5159 has become to Me
Like a lion in the forest;
She has [fn]roared against Me;
Therefore I have come to hate her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:9 - “Is My inheritance H5159 like a speckled bird of prey to Me?
Are the birds of prey against her on every side?
Go, gather all the beasts of the field,
Bring them to devour!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 - Thus says the LORD concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance H5159 with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:15 - “And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance H5159 and each one to his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - “I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance H5159 with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:4 - And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance H5159
That I gave you;
And I will make you serve your enemies
In the land which you do not know;
For you have kindled a fire in My anger
Which will burn forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11 - “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who pillage My heritage, H5159
Because you skip about [fn]like a threshing heifer
And neigh like [fn]stallions,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19 - The portion of Jacob is not like these;
For the [fn]Maker of all is He,
And of the [fn]tribe of His inheritance; H5159
The LORD of hosts is His name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance H5159 has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - “As you rejoiced over the inheritance H5159 of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12 - ‘Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance H5159 and never again bereave them of children.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - “And it shall be with regard to an inheritance H5159 for them, that I am their inheritance; H5159 and you shall give them no possession in Israel—I am their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - “And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, H5159 you shall offer [fn]an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and the width shall be [fn]20,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance H5159 to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - “But if he gives a gift from his inheritance H5159 to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance H5159 shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - “The prince shall not take from the people’s inheritance, H5159 [fn]thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:14 - “You shall divide it for an inheritance, each one [fn]equally with the other; for I [fn]swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you [fn]as an inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance H5159 among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance H5159 with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:23 - “And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance,” H5159 declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:29 - “This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, H5159 and these are their several portions,” declares the Lord [fn]GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, the LORD’S ministers,
Weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD,
And do not make Your inheritance H5159 a reproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘Where is their God?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of [fn]Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, H5159 Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:2 - They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They [fn]rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance. H5159

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 - Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,
The flock of Your [fn]possession H5159
Which dwells by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of [fn]a fruitful field.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
As in the days of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His [fn]possession? H5159
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in [fn]unchanging love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:3 - but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance H5159 for the jackals of the wilderness.”

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