Class
מַחְלְקָהStrong’s H4255machleqah (mach-le-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machleqah is the Aramaic word usually translated “classes their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.”
Meaning
- Class, divisionof priests and Levites
How it's translated
- in classes their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
מַחְלְקָה machleqah · class
1) class, division 1a) of priests and Levites
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “class” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLASS, noun
- An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society.
- A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
- Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common denomination.
All definitions and other forms of “class”
CLASS, verb transitive
- To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common.
- To place in ranks or divisions students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.
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.