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na.chal H5157

נָחַל (na.chal) means “to inherit” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

נָחַל Hebrew · H5157 59 tagged occurrences in 57 verses

Pronunciation guide: naw-khal' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5157

נָחַל · na.chal · to inherit

1) to get as a possession, acquire, inherit, possess 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to take possession, inherit 1a2) to have or get as a possession or property (fig.) 1a3) to divide the land for a possession 1a4) to acquire (testimonies) (fig.) 1b) (Piel) to divide for a possession 1c) (Hithpael) to possess oneself of 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to give as a possession 1d2) to cause to inherit, give as an inheritance 1e) (Hophal) to be allotted, be made to possess

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate

KJV glosses: divide, have (inheritance), take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, have, leave for, take (for)) inheritance, (have in, cause to, be made to) possess(-ion).

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How translators render H5157

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
as an inheritance 5
will inherit 4
inheritance 3
inherited 2
is giving you as an inheritance 2
receive an inheritance 2
and bestows on them 1
and enable them to inherit 1
and it shall be their inheritance 1
and leave it as an inheritance 1
and possess 1
and take us as your inheritance 1
and you are to divide 1
are my heritage forever 1
as distributed 1
assigns his inheritance 1
bestowing 1
distributed 1
distributing 1
had given them 1
has taken possession of 1
have an inheritance 1
he is to provide an inheritance 1
i am allotted 1
i bequeathed 1
inherit 1
judahs portion 1
man leaves an inheritance 1
received 1
received their inheritance 1
shall give it to them as an inheritance 1
shall give these people the inheritance 1
their inheritance 1
they shall receive their inheritance 1
to apportion 1
to apportion the inheritance 1
to distribute 1
to inherit 1
will dispossess them 1
will inherit it 1
will possess the nations 1
will take possession 1
you are to divide 1
you may leave 1
you shall receive 1
you will receive an inheritance 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
shall inherit 4
to inherit 3
for an inheritance 2
have inherited 2
shall possess 2
and he shall cause them to inherit 1
and inherit 1
and take us for thine inheritance 1
and they shall inherit 1
and thou shalt take thine inheritance 1
and to make them inherit 1
and ye shall divide 1
and ye shall inherit 1
and ye shall take them as an inheritance 1
by inheritance 1
did distribute for inheritance 1
distributed for inheritance 1
divided 1
divided for an inheritance 1
for inheritance 1
for thou shalt inherit 1
for we will not inherit 1
giveth thee to inherit 1
giveth you to inherit 1
had 1
had their inheritance 1
have i taken as an heritage 1
in me shall possess 1
in possession 1
inherit 1
inheritance 1
inherited 1
leaveth an inheritance 1
me to inherit 1
shall be defiled 1
shalt thou divide for an inheritance 1
so am i made to possess 1
that i have given for an inheritance 1
their inheritance 1
them and thou shalt cause them to inherit 1
they have 1
they shall have 1
they shall inherit 1
thou shalt have no inheritance 1
to cause to inherit 1
to divide 1
to divide the inheritance 1
to possess 1
took their inheritance 1
unto him thou shalt not inherit 1
whereby ye shall inherit 1
which he inheriteth 1
which shall divide 1
which thou shalt inherit 1
which ye shall inherit 1
ye shall inherit 1

Verses containing H5157

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  1. Exodus 23:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

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  2. Exodus 32:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

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  3. Exodus 34:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

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  4. Leviticus 25:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

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  5. Numbers 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

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  6. Numbers 18:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

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  7. Numbers 18:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

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  8. Numbers 26:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

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  9. Numbers 32:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

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  10. Numbers 32:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

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  11. Numbers 33:54 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

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  12. Numbers 34:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

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  13. Numbers 34:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

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  14. Numbers 34:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

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  15. Numbers 34:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

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  16. Numbers 35:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

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  17. Deuteronomy 1:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

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  18. Deuteronomy 3:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”

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  19. Deuteronomy 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

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  20. Deuteronomy 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.

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  21. Deuteronomy 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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  22. Deuteronomy 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

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  23. Deuteronomy 31:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.

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  24. Deuteronomy 32:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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  25. Joshua 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.

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  26. Joshua 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These were the portions Moses had given them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.

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  27. Joshua 14:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

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  28. Joshua 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.

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  29. Joshua 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

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  30. Joshua 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the territory of Judah, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large for them. So the Simeonites received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.

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  31. Joshua 19:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

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  32. Joshua 19:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

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  33. Judges 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

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  34. 1 Samuel 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

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  35. 1 Chronicles 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

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  36. Job 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

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  37. Psalms 69:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

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    Source alternate reference: 69.37

  38. Psalms 82:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.

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  39. Psalms 119:111 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

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  40. Proverbs 3:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.

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  41. Proverbs 8:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.

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  42. Proverbs 11:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

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  43. Proverbs 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

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  44. Proverbs 14:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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  45. Proverbs 28:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

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  46. Isaiah 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

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  47. Isaiah 49:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

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  48. Isaiah 57:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

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  49. Jeremiah 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

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  50. Jeremiah 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

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