Strong's Definition
from 5157 (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV Usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נַחֲלָה (na.cha.lah) — inheritance. 1) possession, property, inheritance, heritage 1a) property 1b) portion, share 1c) inheritance, portion
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · נחל
Possess | ≈ חֵלֶק
inheritance = process by which possessions are transferred from one generation to the next
Engage | ≈ חֵלֶק · שָׂכָר
heritage, recompense literally: inheritance; hence: = things that happen to someone as reward or punishment from God
Groups | ≈ עַם
heritage, one's own people literally: (a people as God's) inheritance; hence: = a nation or people that is in a covenantal relationship with YHWH and therefore regarded as YHWH's possession
DEU 4:20 · DEU 9:26 · DEU 9:29 · DEU 32:9 · 1SA 10:1 · 1SA 26:19 · 2SA 14:16 · 2SA 20:19 · 2SA 21:3 · 1KI 8:51 · 1KI 8:53 · 2KI 21:14 · PSA 28:9 · PSA 33:12 · PSA 74:2 · PSA 78:62 · PSA 78:71 · PSA 94:5 · PSA 94:14 · PSA 106:5 · PSA 106:40 · ISA 19:25 · ISA 47:6 · ISA 63:17 · JER 10:16 · JER 12:7 · JER 12:8 · JER 51:19 · JOL 2:17 · JOL 4:2 · MIC 7:14 · MIC 7:18
Land | ≈ חֵלֶק
inheritance, possession, heritage literally: inheritance; hence: = land as people's personal or communal property, assigned to them by God himself, and to be transferred from one generation to another and to remain within the family or community; ≈ sometimes extended figuratively to refer to Israel as God's own property, and to God as the Levites' property
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noun m
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נַחֲלָה 224 n.f. possession, property, inheritance property
portion, share
inheritance
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