Portion
מְנָתStrong’s H4521menat (me-nat)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Menat is the Hebrew word usually translated “portion of” and “portions of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Portion
How it's translated
- portion of 4
- portions of 3
- and portion of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 31:4Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
- Nehemiah 12:44And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
- Nehemiah 12:47And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
- Nehemiah 13:10And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
- Psalms 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 63:10They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Hebrew dictionary
מְנָת menat · portion
portion
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.