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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Judges 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
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Judges 18:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
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Judges 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
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Judges 21:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
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Judges 21:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
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Ruth 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
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Ruth 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”
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Ruth 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
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1 Samuel 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?
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1 Samuel 26:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
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2 Samuel 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
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2 Samuel 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
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2 Samuel 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?”
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2 Samuel 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
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1 Kings 8:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
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1 Kings 8:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
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1 Kings 8:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
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1 Kings 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
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1 Kings 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
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1 Kings 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
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2 Kings 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
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1 Chronicles 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
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2 Chronicles 6:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
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2 Chronicles 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
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Nehemiah 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
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Job 20:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
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Job 27:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
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Job 31:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
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Job 42:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
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Psalms 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
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Psalms 16:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
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Psalms 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
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Psalms 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
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Psalms 37:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.
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Psalms 47:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
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Source alternate reference: 47.5
Psalms 68:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
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Source alternate reference: 68.10
Psalms 74:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
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Psalms 78:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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Psalms 78:62 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
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Psalms 78:71 · BSB · 1 occurrence
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
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Psalms 79:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
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Psalms 94:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
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Psalms 94:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
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Psalms 105:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
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Psalms 106:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
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Psalms 106:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
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Psalms 111:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
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Psalms 127:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
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Psalms 135:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.
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Psalms 136:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.
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