נָחַל nâchal — to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy
Translated in the KJV as divide, have, take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, leave for.
a primitive root; to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate.
nâchal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 16Perfect (qatal) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 2
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Infinitive construct 4Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Hitpa'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 1
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 1
These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›