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# חֶלְקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2513

**portion** — used 23 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2513/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְקָה: n.f. portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2513/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. portion of ground;—abs. ח׳ Am 4:7(×2) + 8 times; cstr. חֶלְקַת Gn 33:19 + 12 times; sf. חֶלְקָתִי Je 12:10; חֶלְקָתָם Jb 24:18; portion of ground, especially ח׳ הַשָּׂדֶה = the clearly divided field Gn 33:19 Jos 24:32 (both E), 2 S 23:11, Ru 2:3; 4:3, 2 K 9:25, 1 Ch 11:13. Also without השׂדה Am 4:7(×2), 2 S 14:30;(×2), 31; 23:12; 2 K 3:19, 25; 9:21, 26(×2) 1 Ch 11:14 Jb 24:18; of י׳’s land Je 12:10(×2) (‖ כַּרְמִי); cf. also n.pr.loc. חלקת הַצֻּרִים 2 S 2:16 field of sword-edges (Dr). 𝔊 EwG iii. 156, Eng. tr. 114 We read ח׳ הַצֹּדִים field of plotters or liers-in-wait (v. Dr). portion of ground assigned to one, ח׳ מחקק Dt 33:21 commander’s portion.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the portion (10); of land (5); a portion of ground (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.18/#tree)

קַֽל־ה֤וּא ׀ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֗יִם תְּקֻלַּ֣ל חֶלְקָתָ֣ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ לֹֽא־יִ֝פְנֶה דֶּ֣רֶךְ כְּרָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].swift he on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters it.is.cursed portion their in the land not anyone.turns the.direction of.vineyards

*JPS 1917:* He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

[Jeremiah 12:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.10/#tree)

רֹעִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ כַרְמִ֔י בֹּסְס֖וּ אֶת־חֶלְקָתִ֑י נָֽתְנ֛וּ אֶת־חֶלְקַ֥ת חֶמְדָּתִ֖י לְמִדְבַּ֥ר שְׁמָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* shepherds many they.have.ruined vineyard my they.have.trodden.down (et) portion my they.have.made (et) the.portion my.desire my into a.wilderness of.desolation

*JPS 1917:* Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2513.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2513/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).