Strong's #4256: machaloqeth (pronounced makh-al-o'-keth)

from 2505; a section (of Levites, people or soldiers):--company, course, division, portion. See also 5555.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

machălôqeth

1) division, course, class, share, allotment

1a) division, part

1b) division, class, course

1b1) of priests, Levites (technical term of organisation)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H2505

Usage:

This word is used 43 times:

 

Joshua 11:23: "gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
Joshua 12:7: "gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;"
Joshua 18:10: "the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions."
1 Samuel 23:28: "therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth. "
1 Chronicles 23:6: "And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari."
1 Chronicles 24:1: " Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar,"
1 Chronicles 26:1: " Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons"
1 Chronicles 26:12: "Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another,"
1 Chronicles 26:19: "These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari."
1 Chronicles 27:1: "the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month"
1 Chronicles 27:1: "throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:2: "Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel:"
1 Chronicles 27:2: "the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:4: "And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth"
1 Chronicles 27:4: "month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course"
1 Chronicles 27:4: "was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:5: "a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:6: "among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son."
1 Chronicles 27:7: "his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:8: "was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:9: "of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:10: "the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:11: "the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:12: "the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:13: "the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand."
1 Chronicles 27:14: "the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four"
1 Chronicles 27:15: "month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four"
1 Chronicles 28:1: "the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains"
1 Chronicles 28:13: " Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD,"
1 Chronicles 28:21: "And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God:"
2 Chronicles 5:11: "were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for"
2 Chronicles 23:8: "dismissed not the courses."
2 Chronicles 31:2: "And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses,"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests"
2 Chronicles 31:15: "of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:"
2 Chronicles 31:16: "of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;"
2 Chronicles 31:17: "old and upward, in their charges by their courses;"
2 Chronicles 35:4: "And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 35:10: "their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment."
Nehemiah 11:36: "And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin."
Ezekiel 48:29: "of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD."