Portion
חֶלְקָהStrong’s H2513chelqah (chel-qah)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chelqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “portion of”, “portion of land” and “portion”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:”
Meaning
- Portion, parcelof ground
- Smooth part, smoothness, flatterysmoothness, smooth part · slippery places · smoothness, flattery
How it's translated
- portion of 7
- in portion of 2
- the portion of land 2
- the portion 2
- portion of land 2
- on the portion of land 2
- flatteri 2
- smooth part of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 5
- 2 Samuel 4
- Psalms 3
- Genesis 2
- Ruth 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 33:19And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
- Deuteronomy 33:21And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
- Joshua 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
- Ruth 2:3And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
- Ruth 4:3And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s:
- 2 Samuel 14:30Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶלְקָה chelqah · portion
1) portion, parcel 1a) of ground
חֶלְקָה chelqah · smoothness
1) smooth part, smoothness, flattery 1a) smoothness, smooth part 1b) slippery places 1c) smoothness, flattery
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.