Aramaic word · H4255

מַחְלְקָה

bemachlekatehon

class

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

1) class, division

1a) of priests and Levites

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

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:18 בְּמַחְלְקָ֣תְה֔וֹן in classes their

    They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.