מַחְלְקָה
machlᵉqâh · H4255 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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division
A group of people within a larger group, placed together for a particular task or duty
ExamplesEzra 6:18 Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmereth · H4931 · to keep, to guard, watch
- Hebrew noun denoting an organized division of service, watch, or duty assignment, frequently used for priestly and Levitical courses/divisions parallel to מַחְלְקָה in Chronicles' descriptions of Temple service organization.
- מִשְׁמָר mishmâr · H4929 · custody, watch, guard
- Hebrew noun for a watch, guard duty, or organized division, used in contexts of service assignments and rotational duties similar to מַחְלְקָה, though more commonly emphasizes the guarding/watching aspect.
In the other Testament 2 words
- διαίρεσις diaíresis · G1243 · to divide, to distribute, division
- Greek noun for division or distribution, commonly used in LXX and NT for organized divisions/courses (especially of priestly or Levitical service divisions), directly parallel to the Hebrew מַחְלְקָה in contexts of Temple service organization.
- ἐφημερία ephēmería · G2183 · work group, division
- Greek technical term specifically for a priestly course or division of service (as in Luke 1:5, 'course of Abijah'), the standard NT equivalent for organized rotational divisions of priests or Levites, directly matching the sense of מַחְלְקָה as a service course.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Groups001001003004
- Ezra 6:18 recounts that “they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.”
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4255. machlqah [מַחְלְקָה] noun feminine class, division, of priests and Levites…
[מַחְלְקָה] noun feminine class, division, of priests and Levites (Biblical Hebrew מַחְםקֶת); — plural suffix מַחְלְקָֽתְהוֺן Ezr 6:18.
חֲמָר see יחוּ
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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