Portion
חֲלָקStrong’s H2508chalaq (cha-laq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalaq is the Aramaic word usually translated “portion its” and “possession”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:”
Meaning
- Portion, possession, lot
How it's translated
- portion its 2
- possession 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
- Ezra 4:16We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲלָק chalaq · portion
portion, possession, lot Aramaic of che.leq (חֵ֫לֶק "portion" H2506A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “portion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PORTION, noun
[Latin portio, from partio, to divide, from pars, part. See Part.]
- In general, a part of any thing separated from it.
- A part, though not actually divided, but considered by itself.“These are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him” Job 26:14
- A part assigned; an allotment; a dividend.“The priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh” Genesis 47:22
- The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
All definitions and other forms of “portion”
- A wife's fortune.
PORTION, verb transitive
To divide; to parcel; to allot a share or shares.
- To endow.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.