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Hebrew verb · H5157

נָחַל

nachalnaw-khal'

to inherit

59 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâchal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5157is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 53
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5157

to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate

The King James renders it: divide, have (inheritance), take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, have, leave for, take (for)) inheritance, (have in, cause to, be made to) possess(-ion).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nachal is rendered "to inherit". It stands 59 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 23:30Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-three different ways.

The first use

Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

Exodus 23:30וְנָחַלְתָּ֖

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • they will inherit6
  • you will inherit3
  • and they received their inheritance2
  • he will inherit2
  • I gave as an inheritance2
  • they gave as a possession2
  • they inherited2
  • to give as inheritance2
  • you will have an inheritance2
  • and he will inherit1
  • and I will give as an inheritance1
  • and they will possess1

and 33 more, 59 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָחַםnachamto be sorry: comfortUses108
נָחַתnachathto descendUses11
נָחַשׁnachashto divineUses11
נָחַץnachatsto urgeUses1

All 59, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

53 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיִּנְחֲל֥וּ2
  • יִנְחַל־2
  • יִנְחֲל֖וּ2
  • לְהַנְחִ֖יל2
  • נָחֲל֥וּ2
  • נָחֲל֣וּ2
  • בְּהַנְחֵ֤ל1
  • הַנְחִיל֣וֹ1
  • הִנְחַ֖לְתִּי1
  • הִנְחַ֥לְתִּי1
  • הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי1
  • הִתְנַחֵל֙1

and 41 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural7HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular4HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVqp3cp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhp1cs
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural3HVti2mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vtq2mp2Hc/Vtq2mp
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vhcc
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms

Exodus

three uses
  • Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

    Exodus 23:30

    • וְנָחַלְתָּ֖venachaltaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will possess
  • Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

    Exodus 32:13

    • וְנָחֲל֖וּvenachaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will possess
  • “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

    Exodus 34:9

    • וּנְחַלְתָּֽנוּ׃unechaltanuHc/Vqq2ms/Sp1bptagged: and you will take as a possession us

Leviticus

one use
  • You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

    Leviticus 25:46

    • וְהִתְנַחֲלְתֶּ֨םvehitnachaltemHc/Vtq2mptagged: and you will give as an inheritance

Numbers

thirteen uses
  • Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

    Numbers 18:20

    • תִנְחָ֔לtinchalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will have an inheritance
  • The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

    Numbers 18:23

    • יִנְחֲל֖וּyinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit
  • For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

    Numbers 18:24

    • יִנְחֲל֖וּyinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit
  • Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

    Numbers 26:55

    • יִנְחָֽלוּ׃yinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit
  • We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

    Numbers 32:18

    • הִתְנַחֵל֙hitnachelverb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: have inherited
  • Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

    Numbers 32:19

    • נִנְחַל֙ninchalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will inherit
  • And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

    Numbers 33:54

    • וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם֩vehitnachaltemHc/Vtq2mptagged: and you will inherit
    • תִּתְנֶחָֽלוּ׃titnechaluverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will inherit
  • So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

    Numbers 34:13

    • תִּתְנַחֲל֤וּtitnachaluverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will inherit
  • “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

    Numbers 34:17

    • יִנְחֲל֥וּyinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will give as inheritance
  • Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

    Numbers 34:18

    • לִנְחֹ֥לlincholpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give as inheritance
  • These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

    Numbers 34:29

    • לְנַחֵ֥לlenachelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to apportion as an inheritance to
  • The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

    Numbers 35:8

    • יִנְחָ֔לוּyinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit

Deuteronomy

eight uses
  • Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

    Deuteronomy 1:38

    • יַנְחִלֶ֥נָּהyanchilenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he will give as an inheritance it
  • But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”

    Deuteronomy 3:28

    • יַנְחִ֣ילyanchilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will give as an inheritance
  • When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

    Deuteronomy 12:10

    • מַנְחִ֣ילmanchilverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: giving as an inheritance
  • You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.

    Deuteronomy 19:3

    • יַנְחִֽילְךָ֖yanchilekhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will give as an inheritance you
  • You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

    Deuteronomy 19:14

    • תִּנְחַ֔לtinchalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will inherit
  • when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

    Deuteronomy 21:16

    • הַנְחִיל֣וֹhanchiloverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: causes to inherit he
  • Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.

    Deuteronomy 31:7

    • תַּנְחִילֶ֥נָּהtanchilenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you will give as an inheritance it
  • When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

    Deuteronomy 32:8

    • בְּהַנְחֵ֤לbehanchelpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: when gave inheritances to

Joshua

nine uses
  • Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.

    Joshua 1:6

    • תַּנְחִיל֙tanchilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will cause to inherit
  • These were the portions Moses had given them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.

    Joshua 13:32

    • נִחַ֥לnichalverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he gave as a possession
  • Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

    Joshua 14:1

    • נָחֲל֥וּnachaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they inherited
    • נִֽחֲל֜וּnichaluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they gave as a possession
  • So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.

    Joshua 16:4

    • וַיִּנְחֲל֥וּvaiyinchaluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they received their inheritance
  • 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.

    Joshua 17:6

    • נָחֲל֥וּnachaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they inherited
  • 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.

    Joshua 19:9

    • וַיִּנְחֲל֥וּvaiyinchaluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they received their inheritance
  • When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

    Joshua 19:49

    • לִנְחֹל־linchol-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to divide for possession
  • 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.

    Joshua 19:51

    • נִחֲל֣וּnichaluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they gave as a possession

Judges

one use
  • And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

    Judges 11:2

    • תִנְחַ֣לtinchalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will have an inheritance

1 Samuel

one use
  • He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

    1 Samuel 2:8

    • יַנְחִלֵ֑םyanchilemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he makes inherit them

1 Chronicles

one use
  • So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

    1 Chronicles 28:8

    • וְהִנְחַלְתֶּ֛םvehinchaltemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you will give as inheritance

Job

one use
  • So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

    Job 7:3

    • הָנְחַ֣לְתִּיhanechaltiverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been allotted

Psalms

three uses
  • The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

    Psalms 69:36

    • יִנְחָל֑וּהָyinchaluhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: they will inherit it
  • Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.

    Psalms 82:8

    • תִ֝נְחַ֗לtinchalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have an inheritance
  • Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

    Psalms 119:111

    • נָחַ֣לְתִּיnachaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have inherited

Proverbs

six uses
  • The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.

    Proverbs 3:35

    • יִנְחָ֑לוּyinchaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit
  • bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.

    Proverbs 8:21

    • לְהַנְחִ֖ילlehanchilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give as an inheritance
  • He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

    Proverbs 11:29

    • יִנְחַל־yinchal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will inherit
  • A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

    Proverbs 13:22

    • יַנְחִ֥ילyanchilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he leaves an inheritance to
  • The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

    Proverbs 14:18

    • נָחֲל֣וּnachaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they inherit
  • He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

    Proverbs 28:10

    • יִנְחֲלוּ־yinchalu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will inherit

Isaiah

three uses
  • The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

    Isaiah 14:2

    • וְהִֽתְנַחֲל֣וּםvehitnachalumHc/Vtq3cp/Sp3mptagged: and they will receive as an inheritance them
  • 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 49:8

    • לְהַנְחִ֖ילlehanchilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give as inheritance
  • When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

    Isaiah 57:13

    • יִנְחַל־yinchal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will inherit

Jeremiah

three uses
  • In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

    Jeremiah 3:18

    • הִנְחַ֖לְתִּיhinchaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I gave as an inheritance
  • 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 12:14

    • הִנְחַ֥לְתִּיhinchaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I gave as an inheritance
  • O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

    Jeremiah 16:19

    • נָחֲל֣וּnachaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they possessed

Ezekiel

three uses
  • 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.’”

    Ezekiel 46:18

    • יַנְחִ֣לyanchilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will cause to inherit
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.

    Ezekiel 47:13

    • תִּתְנַחֲל֣וּtitnachaluverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will give as possession
  • 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.

    Ezekiel 47:14

    • וּנְחַלְתֶּ֤םunechaltemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will divide as possession

Zephaniah

one use
  • Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

    Zephaniah 2:9

    • יִנְחָלֽוּם׃yinchalumverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will take possession of them

Zechariah

two uses
  • And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

    Zechariah 2:12

    • וְנָחַ֨לvenachalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will inherit
  • “For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

    Zechariah 8:12

    • וְהִנְחַלְתִּ֗יvehinchaltiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will give as an inheritance

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