חֵלֶק cheleq
Hebrew word for “portion” · Strong’s H2506 · used 67 times in 63 verses
Meaning
1) portion, share, part, territory;
Senses in the lexicon
- portion (66)
- smoothness (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for cheleq in context, with how often each is used:
- portion 39
- share 7
- portions 7
- territory 3
- like the share 2
- does a share 1
- like a portion 1
- part 1
- possession 1
- whom portion 1
- reward 1
- will be the portion 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua | 9 | 0.9 | |
| Deuteronomy | 8 | 0.6 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | 2.7 | |
| Psalms | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Numbers | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Kings | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Samuel | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 |
Also in 12 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Joshua 18 (4), 2 Kings 9 (3), Deuteronomy 14 (2), Deuteronomy 18 (2), Joshua 22 (2), Ecclesiastes 2 (2), Ecclesiastes 5 (2), Ecclesiastes 9 (2), Ezekiel 48 (2), Genesis 14 (1)
Forms
- חלק 27
- חלקי 6
- חלקו 6
- חלקם 4
- חלקך 4
- חלקים 4
- בחלק 4
- וחלק 3
- כחלק 2
- החלקים 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with cheleq more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נַחֲלָה nachalah “inheritance” 18
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 12
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 10
- לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 7
- עָמָל amal “trouble” 5
- הֶם hem “them” 9
- זֶה zeh “this” 8
- גְּבוּל gevul “border” 5
- גּוֹרָל goral “allotted” 4
- נוּ nu “us” 5
- עִם im “with” 7
- אִיזֶבֶל izevel “Jezebel” 3
Key verses
The verses using cheleq that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 12:12 — And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is…
- Deuteronomy 14:29 — And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall…
- Deuteronomy 32:9 — For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- 2 Samuel 20:1 — And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in…
- 1 Kings 12:16 — So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance…
- 2 Chronicles 10:16 — And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none…
- Psalms 16:5 — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid they are full of…
- Psalms 73:26 — My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
- Jeremiah 10:16 — The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
- Lamentations 3:24 — The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
- Micah 2:4 — In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my…
See all 63 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.