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# חֶלְקָת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2520

**Helkath** — used 2 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

Helkath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2520/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְקָ֫ת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2520/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (portion, possession) city in Asher Jos 21:31, 𝔊 Χελκατ, A Θελκαθ, 𝔊L Χαλκαθ, = חֶלְקַת 19:25 𝔊 Ελεκεθ, A Χελκαθ, 𝔊L Ελκαθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Helkath (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.25/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י גְּבוּלָ֑ם חֶלְקַ֥ת וַחֲלִ֖י וָבֶ֥טֶן וְאַכְשָֽׁף׃

*Word for word:* and it.was border their Helkath and Hali and Beten and Acshaph

*JPS 1917:* And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph;

[Joshua 21:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.31/#tree)

אֶת־חֶלְקָת֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־רְחֹ֖ב וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע׃ס

*Word for word:* (et) Helkath and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Rehob and (et) lands its.pasture cities four

*JPS 1917:* Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2520.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2520/): 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).