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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 2 / 4 (Deu 21:23–Jdg 2:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - “his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - “then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after 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 is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - “Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1 - “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8

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

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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 place of His inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23 - So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - “all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth,[fn] and all the Sidonians—them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - “Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as He said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33 - But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2 - Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - “So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13 - And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus: The border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth Addar as far as Upper Beth Horon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - The border went out from Tappuah westward to the Brook Kanah, and it ended at the sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - The separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:4 - And they came near before Eleazar the priest, before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD, he gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:6 - because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons; and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 - Then the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given us only one lot and one share to inherit, since we are a great people, inasmuch as the LORD has blessed us until now?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:2 - But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - “Pick out from among you three men for each tribe, and I will send them; they shall rise and go through the land, survey it according to their inheritance, and come back to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - “But the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - The Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its boundaries all around, according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:1 - The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. And their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:2 - They had in their inheritance Beersheba (Sheba), Moladah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - and all the villages that were all around these cities as far as Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:9 - The inheritance of the children of Simeon was included in the share of the children of Judah, for the share of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of that people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:10 - The third lot came out for the children of Zebulun according to their families, and the border of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:41 - And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:49 - When they had made an end of dividing the land as an inheritance according to their borders, the children of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:51 - These were the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided as an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:3 - So the children of Israel gave to the Levites from their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their common-lands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea westward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:28 - So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.

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