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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Psalms 136:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a heritage to His servant Israel. His loving devotion endures forever.
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Proverbs 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
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Proverbs 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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Proverbs 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
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Ecclesiastes 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
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Isaiah 19:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
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Isaiah 47:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
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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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Isaiah 54:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
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Isaiah 58:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
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Isaiah 63:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
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Jeremiah 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.
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Jeremiah 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
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Jeremiah 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
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Jeremiah 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
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Jeremiah 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
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Jeremiah 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
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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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Jeremiah 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
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Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
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Jeremiah 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
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Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
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Jeremiah 51:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
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Lamentations 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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Ezekiel 35:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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Ezekiel 36:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.
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Ezekiel 44:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
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Ezekiel 45:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.
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Ezekiel 46:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.
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Ezekiel 46:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
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Ezekiel 46:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
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Ezekiel 47:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
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Ezekiel 47:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
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Ezekiel 47:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there,” declares the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 48:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Lord GOD.
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Joel 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
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Joel 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
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Source alternate reference: 4.2
Micah 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
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Micah 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
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Micah 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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Malachi 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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