נָחַל

Exodus 23:30 וְנָחַלְתָּ֖ and you will possess

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

Exodus 32:13 וְנָחֲל֖וּ and they will possess [it]

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.’”

Here: 'And they shall hold it as their allotted family possession': land passed down within the family line and not to be sold off permanently.

Exodus 34:9 וּנְחַלְתָּֽנוּ׃ and you will take as a possession us

“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.”

Here: 'And take us as your inherited possession', meaning your permanent family holding. Moses asks God to treat Israel the way an Israelite family treated its ancestral land: something not to be sold or given up.

Leviticus 25:46 וְהִתְנַחֲלְתֶּ֨ם and you will give as an inheritance

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.

Numbers 18:20 תִנְחָ֔ל you will have an inheritance

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.

Here: To receive and hold a nachalah, a family land share passed down the generations. The priest will not be one of the land-holders when Canaan is divided.

Numbers 18:23 יִנְחֲל֖וּ they will inherit

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 18:24 יִנְחֲל֖וּ 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 26:55 יִנְחָֽלוּ׃ 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 32:18 הִתְנַחֵל֙ have inherited

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

Numbers 32:19 נִנְחַל֙ we will inherit

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 33:54 וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם֩ תִּתְנֶחָֽלוּ׃ and you will inherit, you 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 34:13 תִּתְנַחֲל֤וּ 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 34:17 יִנְחֲל֥וּ they will give as inheritance

“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 34:18 לִנְחֹ֥ל to give as inheritance

Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

Numbers 34:29 לְנַחֵ֥ל to apportion as an inheritance to

These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35:8 יִנְחָ֔לוּ they will inherit

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.”

Deuteronomy 1:38 יַנְחִלֶ֥נָּה he will give as an inheritance it

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

Here: "He will cause [Israel] to inherit *it*." The ending "it" is feminine, which points back to "the land" (feminine in Hebrew). The verb form means bringing others into possession: Joshua will put Israel in possession of the land and share it out as their family holdings.

Deuteronomy 3:28 יַנְחִ֣יל he will give as an inheritance

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.”

Here: This causative form means 'to put someone in possession of a nachalah', an allotted, permanent family holding. It covers winning the land and also sharing it out among tribes and clans, which Joshua does by lot in Joshua 13–21.

Deuteronomy 12:10 מַנְחִ֣יל [is] giving 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,

Here: "Is causing [you] to take possession as your allotted holding." The participle presents it as an action already underway. God is the owner who hands out the land as permanent family holdings.

Deuteronomy 19:3 יַנְחִֽילְךָ֖ he will give as an inheritance you

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 19:14 תִּנְחַ֔ל you will inherit

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 21:16 הַנְחִיל֣וֹ causes to inherit he

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 31:7 תַּנְחִילֶ֥נָּה you will give as an inheritance it

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.

Here: "You will make them take possession of it as their nachalah." The ending "-ah" ("it") refers to the land, which is a feminine noun in Hebrew. Joshua will hand out the land as permanent family holdings. This is the job he carries out in Joshua 13–21.

Deuteronomy 32:8 בְּהַנְחֵ֤ל when gave inheritances to

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.

Here: "When [he] gave out allotments." The causative form means making someone the holder of a family estate. It opens a time clause that sets the scene in the distant past (v. 7, "remember the days of old").

Joshua 1:6 תַּנְחִיל֙ you will cause to inherit

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.

Here: A causative form: 'you will cause (them) to take possession as their allotted family holding.' It looks ahead to Joshua leading the people in and then dividing the land among the tribes (chapters 13–21).

Joshua 13:32 נִחַ֥ל he gave as a possession

These were the portions Moses had given them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.

Here: The causative-intensive form of the verb: Moses did not inherit anything himself. He apportioned land so that it became each tribe's permanent family holding (naḥalah).

Joshua 14:1 נָחֲל֥וּ נִֽחֲל֜וּ they inherited, they 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 16:4 וַיִּנְחֲל֥וּ and they received their inheritance

So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.

Here: "And they received their allotted holding." The verb is in the ordinary storytelling form ("and then they…"), and it closes the account of the shared Joseph border in verses 1–3. In its simple form it means to come into a family portion: here, land given by lot under God's direction, not wealth left by someone who died.

Joshua 17:6 נָחֲל֥וּ they inherited

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.

Here: 'They received as a family holding.' The verb is about receiving a permanent hereditary share of land, not about something passed on in a will at a death. The form describes a completed act: it happened.

Joshua 19:9 וַיִּנְחֲל֥וּ and they received their inheritance

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 19:49 לִנְחֹל־ to divide for possession

When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

Here: 'to apportion the land as a lasting possession.' The verb belongs with naḥalah (word 9). Here it describes the act of sharing out the land so that each group's share becomes its permanent holding (compare the same verb in Num 34:17).

Joshua 19:51 נִחֲל֣וּ they gave as a 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.

Judges 11:2 תִנְחַ֣ל you will have an inheritance

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.”

1 Samuel 2:8 יַנְחִלֵ֑ם he makes inherit them

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.

Here: 'He makes them inherit it.' God assigns the seat as their own allotted, lasting share, the way family land was handed on. It is not a one-time visit to the head table but standing that belongs to them.

1 Chronicles 28:8 וְהִנְחַלְתֶּ֛ם and you will give [it] as inheritance

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.

Job 7:3 הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי I have been allotted

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

Psalm 69:36 יִנְחָל֑וּהָ they will inherit it

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

Here: 'They will take it as their family holding.' The verb comes from the land-allotment world of Joshua: a family's share, granted by God, kept in the family for good. The ending '-ha' ('her/it') points back to Zion or the land of verse 35.

Psalm 82:8 תִ֝נְחַ֗ל you have an inheritance

Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.

Here: To hold something as your own lawful allotted portion, the way an Israelite family held its ancestral land. The verb form can mean 'you will inherit' or 'you do hold'. It reverses the old picture in which each nation was assigned to a different divine being and only Israel was the LORD's portion (Deut 32:8–9).

Psalm 119:111 נָחַ֣לְתִּי I have inherited

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Here: "I have taken as my inheritance." This is the verb for receiving a family's or tribe's allotted land, the estate that belongs to you for good. Putting it first, as a completed act, says the speaker has already claimed God's testimonies as his estate and now lives on them. It also opens the line with the letter nun, as every verse in this stanza does.

Proverbs 3:35 יִנְחָ֑לוּ they will inherit

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

Proverbs 8:21 לְהַנְחִ֖יל to give as an inheritance

bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.

Here: 'In order to make (them) inherit.' This form states purpose and hangs on verse 20: Wisdom walks the paths of justice so that she can hand her lovers a holding of their own. The verb belongs to the language of allotted family property, the kind of land a household holds permanently.

Proverbs 11:29 יִנְחַל־ he will inherit

He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 13:22 יַנְחִ֥יל he leaves an inheritance to

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

Here: The causative form, 'makes [them] inherit,' that is, he passes his holding on. The imperfect tense here describes what usually happens, not a single event: the good man is the kind of man whose estate lasts.

Proverbs 14:18 נָחֲל֣וּ they inherit

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Proverbs 28:10 יִנְחֲלוּ־ they will 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.

Here: 'They will inherit.' The verb behind nachalah, a family's allotted land holding. It suggests receiving a settled, lasting portion that is rightfully yours.

Isaiah 14:2 וְהִֽתְנַחֲל֣וּם and they will receive as an inheritance them

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.

Here: 'And they will take them as their own inherited possession.' Now 'them' means the peoples. This verb is used in the law of foreign bond-servants (Lev 25:46), which lets you pass such servants on to your children. So it frames the nations as Israel's lasting household property.

Isaiah 49:8 לְהַנְחִ֖יל to give as inheritance

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,

Here: 'To give out as inherited property.' This is the very verb used of Joshua, who was to divide the land among the tribes (Deuteronomy 31:7; Joshua 1:6). The servant does a new Joshua's work.

Isaiah 57:13 יִנְחַל־ he will inherit

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.”

Here: 'Will receive the land as his share.' The word comes from the allotting of the land to Israel's tribes and families (nachalah). It echoes 57:6, where the idolaters' 'portion' and 'lot' were the smooth stones of the wadi (nachal).

Jeremiah 3:18 הִנְחַ֖לְתִּי I gave as an inheritance

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.

Here: God speaks ('I'). The verb form means 'I made [them] holders of a family portion': God, as owner, allotted the land to the ancestors as their lasting family share.

Jeremiah 12:14 הִנְחַ֥לְתִּי 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.

Here: 'I made [them] inherit': the causative form makes Yahweh the one who handed over the holding. Israel's title to the land comes from him, so an attack on it is an attack on his grant.

Jeremiah 16:19 נָחֲל֣וּ they possessed

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.

Here: "They inherited": received as the family estate passed down the generations. This echoes v.18, where Judah filled Yahweh's "inheritance" (naḥălātî) with idols.

Ezekiel 46:18 יַנְחִ֣ל he will cause to inherit

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.’”

Here: The verb form of 'inheritance': he is to settle land on his sons as their inheritance. It picks up the noun earlier in the verse, contrasting the people's inheritance with the one he may legitimately create.

Ezekiel 47:13 תִּתְנַחֲל֣וּ you will give as possession

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 47:14 וּנְחַלְתֶּ֤ם and you will divide 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.

Zephaniah 2:9 יִנְחָלֽוּם׃ they will take possession of them

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.”

Here: "They will take them as their holding": the language of Israel's land allotment. Moab and Ammon pushed into Judah's border (v. 8), and now Judah's survivors will hold theirs.

Zechariah 2:12 וְנָחַ֨ל and he will inherit

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

Zechariah 8:12 וְהִנְחַלְתִּ֗י and I will give as an inheritance

“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.

Here: "And I will make [them] inherit". God allots the land and its yield to them as their family share, in the language of Joshua's division of the land.