נַחֲלָה nachălâh

Hebrew · Strong's H5159 · pronounced nakh-al-aw' · used 222 times in 191 verses

Meaning

properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion

In the King James Version: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare H5158 (נַחַל).

Derivation: from H5157 (נָחַל) (in its usual sense);

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Where it is used

2 Kings 21:14 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,
1 Chronicles 16:18 ‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
2 Chronicles 6:27 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.
2 Chronicles 10:16 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,
Nehemiah 11:20 The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
Job 20:29 This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
Job 27:13 This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
Job 31:2 For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 42:15 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.
Psalms 2:8 Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Psalms 16:6 The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
Psalms 28:9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
Psalms 37:18 The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.
Psalms 47:4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
Psalms 68:9 You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
Psalms 74:2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.
Psalms 78:55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalms 78:62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Psalms 78:71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
Psalms 79:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Psalms 94:5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
Psalms 94:14 For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
Psalms 105:11 “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
Psalms 106:5 that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
Psalms 106:40 So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
Psalms 111:6 He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Psalms 127:3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Psalms 135:12 He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.
Psalms 136:21 and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalms 136:22 a heritage to His servant Israel. His loving devotion endures forever.
Proverbs 17:2 A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
Proverbs 19:14 Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
Isaiah 19:25 The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
Isaiah 47:6 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.
Isaiah 49:8 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,
Isaiah 54:17 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.
Isaiah 58:14 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.
Isaiah 63:17 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.
Jeremiah 2:7 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.
Jeremiah 3:19 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.
Jeremiah 10:16 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.
Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 12:8 My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
Jeremiah 12:9 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.
Jeremiah 12:14 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.
Jeremiah 12:15 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.
Jeremiah 16:18 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.”
Jeremiah 17:4 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.”
Jeremiah 50:11 “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,
Jeremiah 51:19 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.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Ezekiel 35:15 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.
Ezekiel 36:12 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.
Ezekiel 44:28 In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
Ezekiel 45:1 “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.
Ezekiel 46:16 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.
Ezekiel 46:17 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.