Allotted
גּוֹרָלStrong’s H1486goral (go-ral)
Appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Goral is the Hebrew word usually translated “lot”, “lots” and “lot their”. It appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament.
“But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.”
Meaning
- Lotlot-pebbles used for systematically making decisions
- Portionlot, portion (thing assigned by casting lots) · recompense, retribution
How it's translated
- the lot 25
- a lot 12
- lots 8
- by lot 7
- by the lot 7
- lot their 3
- lot your 2
- and a lot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 24
- 1 Chronicles 11
- Numbers 6
- Leviticus 3
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 3
18 books in all.
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Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 16:8And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
- Leviticus 16:9And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 16:10But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
- Numbers 26:55Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
- Numbers 26:56According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
- Numbers 33:54And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
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Hebrew dictionary
גּוֹרָל goral · allotted
1) lot 1a) lot-pebbles used for systematically making decisions 2) portion 2a) lot, portion (thing assigned by casting lots) 2b) recompense, retribution
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “allotted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ALLOT'TED, participle passive
Distributed by lot; granted; assigned.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.