nachalah (inheritance)

Meaning

Possession, property, inheritance, heritageerty · portion, share · inheritance, portion

How it's translated

an inheritance 52
inheritance of 29
inheritance his 22
inheritance their 20
inheritance your 12
inheritance its 9
and an inheritance 7
inheritance my 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Joshua 43
Numbers 31
Deuteronomy 22
Psalms 22
Jeremiah 12
Ezekiel 11

25 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 48:6And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Exodus 15:17Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
Numbers 16:14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
Numbers 18:20And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 18:23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

All 191 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 31:14 48:6
Exodus 1: 15:17
Numbers 31: 16:14 18:20 18:21 18:23 18:24 18:26 26:53 26:54 26:56 26:62 27:7 27:8 27:9 27:10 27:11 32:18 32:19 32:32 33:54 34:2 34:14 34:15 35:2 35:8 36:2 36:3 36:4 36:7 36:8 36:9 36:12
Deuteronomy 22: 4:20 4:21 4:38 9:26 9:29 10:9 12:9 12:12 14:27 14:29 15:4 18:1 18:2 19:10 19:14 20:16 21:23 24:4 25:19 26:1 29:8 32:9
Joshua 43: 11:23 13:6 13:7 13:8 13:14 13:23 13:28 13:33 14:2 14:3 14:9 14:13 14:14 15:20 16:5 16:8 16:9 17:4 17:6 17:14 18:2 18:4 18:7 18:20 18:28 19:1 19:2 19:8 19:9 19:10 19:16 19:23 19:31 19:39 19:41 19:48 19:49 19:51 21:3 23:4 24:28 24:30 24:32
Judges 6: 2:6 2:9 18:1 20:6 21:23 21:24
Ruth 3: 4:5 4:6 4:10
1 Samuel 2: 10:1 26:19
2 Samuel 4: 14:16 20:1 20:19 21:3
1 Kings 6: 8:36 8:51 8:53 12:16 21:3 21:4
2 Kings 1: 21:14
1 Chronicles 1: 16:18
2 Chronicles 2: 6:27 10:16
Nehemiah 1: 11:20
Job 4: 20:29 27:13 31:2 42:15
Psalms 22: 2:8 16:6 28:9 33:12 37:18 47:4 68:9 74:2 78:55 78:62 78:71 79:1 94:5 94:14 105:11 106:5 106:40 111:6 127:3 135:12 136:21 136:22
Proverbs 3: 17:2 19:14 20:21
Ecclesiastes 1: 7:11
Isaiah 6: 19:25 47:6 49:8 54:17 58:14 63:17
Jeremiah 12: 2:7 3:19 10:16 12:7 12:8 12:9 12:14 12:15 16:18 17:4 50:11 51:19
Lamentations 1: 5:2
Ezekiel 11: 35:15 36:12 44:28 45:1 46:16 46:17 46:18 47:14 47:22 47:23 48:29
Joel 2: 2:17 3:2
Micah 3: 2:2 7:14 7:18
Malachi 1: 1:3

Hebrew dictionary

נַחֲלָה nachalah · inheritance

1) possession, property, inheritance, heritage 1a) property 1b) portion, share 1c) inheritance, portion

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “inheritance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

INHER'ITANCE, noun

An estate derived from an ancestor to an heir by succession or in course of law; or an estate which the law casts on a child or other person, as the representative of the deceased ancestor.

The reception of an estate by hereditary right, or the descent by which an estate or title is cast on the heir; as, the heir received the estate by inheritance
The estate or possession which may descend to an heir, though it has not descended.“And Rachel and Leah answered and said, is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?” Genesis 31:14
An estate given or possessed by donation or divine appropriation. Numbers 26:53
That which is possessed or enjoyed.“Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance” Psalms 2:8

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.