Nachalah נַחֲלָה

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Nachalah
נַחֲלָה
Transliterationnachalah
Strong's numberH5159
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossinheritance
Occurrences222 in 191 verses
Most frequent inJoshua (43)

Nachalah (Hebrew נַחֲלָה, Strong's H5159) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “inheritance”. It occurs 222 times in 191 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) possession, property, inheritance, heritage
1a) property
1b) portion, share
1c) inheritance, portion

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVinheritance (191), heritage (26), inherit (2), possession (1), inheritances (1), heritages (1)
BSBinheritance (94), his inheritance (23), their inheritance (16), your inheritance (14), was the inheritance (10), my inheritance (8), heritage (6), his own inheritance (5), our inheritance (3), your heritage (3), its inheritance (2), is their inheritance (2), and 21 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Nachalah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Joel

Micah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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