na.cha.lah H5159

נַחֲלָה (na.cha.lah) means “inheritance” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

נַחֲלָה Hebrew · H5159 222 tagged occurrences in 191 verses

Pronunciation guide: nakh-al-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5159

נַחֲלָה · na.cha.lah · inheritance

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H5157 (נָחַל) (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion

KJV glosses: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158 (נַחַל).

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How translators render H5159

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	27
inheritance	24
the inheritance	18
an inheritance	13
his inheritance	12
their inheritance	11
was the inheritance	10
my inheritance	7
of his inheritance	7
or inheritance	6
your inheritance	6
of your inheritance	5
of their inheritance	3
our inheritance	3
to his own inheritance	3
a heritage	2
and their inheritance	2
and your inheritance	2
as his inheritance	2
as your inheritance	2
is their inheritance	2
it as an inheritance	2
its inheritance	2
your heritage	2
and	1
and included	1
and left his inheritance	1
and the inheritance	1
any of the inheritance	1
are inherited	1
as a heritage	1
as their inheritance	1
by his heritage	1
by inheritance	1
each inheritance	1
from his inheritance	1
from the inheritance	1
from the portion	1
his heritage	1
his own inheritance	1
in the inheritance	1
in the territory they inherit	1
inheritances	1
is his inheritance	1
is not my inheritance	1
is the heritage	1
is the inheritance	1
it	1
my heritage	1
my own inheritance	1
of my inheritance	1
of your heritage	1
on his own inheritance	1
or the heritage	1
out of their own inheritance	1
received an inheritance	1
territory	1
that is their inheritance	1
the heritage	1
the inheritance of each	1
the inheritances	1
the territory	1
their own inheritance	1
to his inheritance	1
to mark the inheritance	1
we may have our inheritance	1
when the inheritance	1
with the heritage	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the inheritance	25
an inheritance	13
their inheritance	11
inheritance	10
for an inheritance	8
his inheritance	8
of his inheritance	6
nor inheritance	5
an heritage	4
and thine inheritance	4
mine heritage	4
thine inheritance	4
and their inheritance	3
mine inheritance	3
none inheritance	3
of the inheritance	3
of their inheritance	3
of thine inheritance	3
them an inheritance	3
and his heritage	2
and the heritage	2
for inheritance	2
from the inheritance	2
heritage	2
it for an inheritance	2
no inheritance	2
of our inheritance	2
of your inheritance	2
our inheritance	2
to his inheritance	2
to inherit	2
to the inheritance	2
unto his inheritance	2
upon his inheritance	2
and his inheritance	1
and it became the inheritance	1
and it shall be unto them for an inheritance	1
and they had in their inheritance	1
and thou shalt cause the inheritance	1
and to the inheritance	1
at the inheritance	1
because our inheritance	1
because there was no inheritance	1
but his inheritance	1
by inheritance	1
for an heritage	1
for his own inheritance	1
from thine heritage	1
heritages	1
himself to his own inheritance	1
himself to the inheritance	1
his own inheritance	1
in his inheritance	1
in the inheritance	1
in their inheritance	1
in thine inheritance	1
into thine inheritance	1
it by lot for an inheritance	1
mine own inheritance	1
my heritage	1
neither have we inheritance	1
neither shall the inheritance	1
not thine heritage	1
of an inheritance	1
of his heritage	1
of inheritance	1
of mine heritage	1
of mine inheritance	1
of thine heritage	1
or inheritance	1
out of the inheritance	1
out of their inheritance	1
over his inheritance	1
shall be then shall their inheritance	1
shall be thine inheritance	1
shall his inheritance	1
shall the possession	1
so shall not the inheritance	1
the heritage	1
the inheritances	1
thee and thou shalt be their inheritance	1
thee the inheritance	1
thee with the heritage	1
them inheritance	1
them the heritage	1
then shall their inheritance	1
then ye shall cause his inheritance	1
therefore became the inheritance	1
therefore shall they have no inheritance	1
thine heritage	1
to be an inheritance	1
to his heritage	1
unto the inheritance	1
unto their inheritance	1
unto you for an inheritance	1
unto you for inheritance	1
us an inheritance	1
us inheritance	1
whereunto they are received so shall their inheritance	1
with an inheritance	1
with his inheritance	1
with thine inheritance	1
you from them for your inheritance	1

Verses containing H5159

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Deuteronomy 21:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 24:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 25:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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Deuteronomy 26:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,
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Deuteronomy 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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Source alternate reference: 29.7
Deuteronomy 32:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
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Joshua 11:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
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Joshua 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
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Joshua 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
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Joshua 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:
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Joshua 13:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The food offerings to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.
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Joshua 13:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.
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Joshua 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the Gadites, including the cities and villages.
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Joshua 13:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences
To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, just as He had promised them.
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Joshua 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
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Joshua 14:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.
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Joshua 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
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Joshua 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
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Joshua 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Joshua 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah.
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Joshua 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon
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Joshua 16:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,
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Joshua 16:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.
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Joshua 17:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers, in keeping with the command of the LORD.
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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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Joshua 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
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Joshua 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
there were still seven tribes of Israel who had not yet received their inheritance.
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Joshua 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
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Joshua 18:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The Levites, however, have no portion among you, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave them beyond the Jordan to the east.”
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Joshua 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the east side the border was the Jordan. These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Joshua 18:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Joshua 19:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The second lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Simeon: Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah
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Joshua 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
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Joshua 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and all the villages surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Simeon.
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Joshua 19:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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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Joshua 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The third lot came up for the clans of the tribe of Zebulun: The border of their inheritance stretched as far as Sarid.
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Joshua 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Zebulun, including these cities and their villages.
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Joshua 19:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Issachar, including these cities and their villages.
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Joshua 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Asher, including these cities and their villages.
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Joshua 19:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Naphtali, including these cities and their villages.
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Joshua 19:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
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Joshua 19:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Dan, including these cities and their villages.
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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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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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Joshua 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:
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Joshua 23:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
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Joshua 24:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
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Joshua 24:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
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Joshua 24:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
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Judges 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
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