Deuteronomy 18:8
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
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Hosea 5:7
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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5 occurrences in 5 verses.
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מָנָה
mânâh · maw-naw'
6 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
properly, something weighed out, i.e. (generally) a division; specifically (of food) a ration; also a lot
Strong's KJV usage: such things as belonged, part, portion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 1:4Strong's last: Esther 9:22
Open full H4490 profile →חֵלֶק
chêleq · khay'lek
4 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences
properly, smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment
Strong's KJV usage: flattery, inheritance, part, × partake, portion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 18:8Strong's last: Hosea 5:7
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mᵉnâth · men-awth'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
an allotment (by courtesy, law or providence)
Strong's KJV usage: portion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 12:44Strong's last: Nehemiah 13:10
Open full H4521 profile →חֶבֶל
chebel · kheh'-bel
2 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Strong's first: Joshua 17:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:13
Open full H2256 profile →מַחֲלֹקֶת
machălôqeth · makh-al-o'-keth
1 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
a section (of Levites, people or soldiers)
Strong's KJV usage: company, course, division, portion. See also 5555.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 48:29Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:29
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H2506
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
H2256
And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
H4490
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
H4490
Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
H4490
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
H4490
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
H4521
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
H4521
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
H4521
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
H4490
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
H4490
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
H2506
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
H2256
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
H2506
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
H4256
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
H2506
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
English meaning and historical usage.
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portion
PORTION, noun [Latin portio, from partio, to divide, from pars, part. See Part.]
1. In general, a part of any thing separated from it. Hence,
2. A part, though not actually divided, but considered by itself.
These are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him. Job 26:14.
3. A part assigned; an allotment; a dividend.
How small
A portion to your share would fall.
The priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh. Genesis 47:22.
4. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
5. A wife's fortune.
PORTION, verb transitive To divide; to parcel; to allot a share or shares.
And portion to his tribes the wide domain.
1. To endow.
Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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