Strong's #5157: nachal (pronounced naw-khal')
a primitive root; to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate:--divide, have ((inheritance)), take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, have, leave for, take (for)) inheritance, (have in, cause to, be made to) possess(-ion).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâchal
1) to get as a possession, acquire, inherit, possess
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to take possession, inherit
1a2) to have or get as a possession or property (figuratively)
1a3) to divide the land for a possession
1a4) to acquire (testimonies) (figuratively)
1b) (Piel) to divide for a possession
1c) (Hithpael) to possess oneself of
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to give as a possession
1d2) to cause to inherit, give as an inheritance
1e) (Hophal) to be allotted, be made to possess
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Jeremiah 3:18: "of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."
Jeremiah 12:14: "my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of"
Jeremiah 16:19: "of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no"
Ezekiel 46:18: "take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance"
Ezekiel 47:13: "This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve"
Ezekiel 47:14: " And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give"
Zephaniah 2:9: "the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess"
Zechariah 2:12: "And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,"
Zechariah 8:12: "the remnant of this people to possess all these"
