Hebrew word · H2507

חֵ֫לֶק

chelek

Helek

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.30;

son of: Gilead (H1568H);

brother of: Abiezer (H0044I), Asriel (H0844), Shechem (H7928), Shemida (H8061) and Hepher (H2660A)

Also named: chel.qi (חֶלְקִי "Helekite" H2516)

§ Helek = "portion"

a descendant of Manasseh, and 2nd son of Gilead

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:30 לְחֵ֕לֶק of Helek

    These were the descendants of Gilead: the Iezerite clan from Iezer, the Helekite clan from Helek,

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 17:2 חֵ֗לֶק Helek

    So this allotment was for the rest of the descendants of Manasseh—the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph.

    Here: Clan name (Num 26:30). As an ordinary noun the word means "portion, share", a fitting name in a land-allotment list, though the text does not make anything of the pun.

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