מַחֲלֹקֶת machaloqet

Hebrew word for “division” · Strong’s H4256 · used 42 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

1) division, course, class, share, allotment;

How it is translated

Glosses given for machaloqet in context, with how often each is used:

• divisions 24
• division 17
• portions 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 27 (14), 2 Chronicles 31 (4), 1 Chronicles 26 (3), 1 Chronicles 28 (3), 2 Chronicles 35 (2), Joshua 11 (1), Joshua 12 (1), Joshua 18 (1), 1 Chronicles 23 (1), 1 Chronicles 24 (1)

Forms

• מחלקתו 12
• מחלקות 7
• מחלקותם 4
• כמחלקתם 3
• המחלקות 3
• למחלקות 2
• המחלקת 2
• ומחלקתו 2
• מחלקת 1
• ולמחלקות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with machaloqet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 14
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 13
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 13
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 14
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 8
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 10
• עֲבֹדָה avodah “service” 6
• שָׁרַת sharat “to minister” 5
• שֹׁעֵר shoer “gatekeeper” 4
• מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmeret “charge” 4
• שַׂר sar “ruler” 5
• שֵׁבֶט shevet “tribe” 4

Key verses

The verses using machaloqet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Joshua 11:23 — So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions…
• Joshua 12:7 — And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon…
• Joshua 18:10 — And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
• 1 Chronicles 23:6 — And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
• 1 Chronicles 24:1 — Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• 1 Chronicles 26:1 — Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
• 1 Chronicles 27:1 — Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any…
• 1 Chronicles 28:1 — And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the…
• 2 Chronicles 5:11 — And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
• 2 Chronicles 8:14 — And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and…
• 2 Chronicles 31:2 — And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt…
• 2 Chronicles 31:17 — Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

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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.