Strong's #2506: cheleq (pronounced khay'lek)
from 2505; properly, smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment:--flattery, inheritance, part, X partake, portion.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chêleq
1) portion, share, part, territory
1a) portion, share
1b) portion, tract, parcel (of land)
1c) one' s portion, one' s possession
1d) (chosen) portion
1e) portion, award (from God)
2) smoothness, seductiveness, flattery
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2505
Usage:
This word is used 67 times:
Ecclesiastes 9:6: "perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which"
Ecclesiastes 11:2: "Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; thou knowest not"
Isaiah 17:14: "and before the morning This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob"
Isaiah 57:6: "Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they even to them hast thou poured"
Isaiah 61:7: "ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double:"
Jeremiah 10:16: " The portion of Jacob is not like them: for is the former of all"
Jeremiah 51:19: " The portion of Jacob is not like them; for is the former of all things:"
Lamentations 3:24: "The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore"
Ezekiel 45:7: "side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against"
Ezekiel 48:8: "thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side"
Ezekiel 48:21: "the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions"
Hosea 5:7: "shall a month devour them with their portions."
Amos 7:4: "deep, and did eat up a part."
Micah 2:4: "We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed"
Habakkuk 1:16: "and burn incense unto their drag; by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous."
Zechariah 2:12: "shall inherit Judah his portion the holy land, and shall choose"
