chelka · smooth part; portion

What it means

chelka (חֶלְקָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “smooth part; portion”.

Smoothness, a smooth part; flattery. Also a portion or plot of land.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A plot of land belonging to someone.
2. What is smooth and slippery; also sweet words that flatter.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• plot ×17
• portion ×3
• field ×2
• flattering ×2
• piece ×1
• slippery places ×1
• smooth part ×1
• smooth things ×1
• smoothness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Ruth×2
• 2 Samuel×5
• 2 Kings×6
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Amos×2

• Genesis 27:16

  And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the piece of the field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitah.

• Deuteronomy 33:21

  He chose the first part for himself, for there the portion of a commander was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people; he carried out the righteousness of YHWH and his judgments with Israel.”

• Joshua 24:32

  And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel had brought up from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of the field that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.

• Ruth 2:3

  So she went, came, and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and her chance happened to be the plot of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the kinsman-redeemer, “The plot of the field that belonged to our brother Elimelech Naomi is selling, the one who returned from the field of Moab.

• 2 Samuel 14:30

  He said to his servants, “See, Joab’s plot is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So the servants of Absalom set the plot on fire.

• 2 Samuel 14:31

  Joab got up and came to Absalom at the house and said to him, “Why have your servants set the plot that is mine on fire?”

• 2 Samuel 23:11

  After him was Shammah son of Agee, the Hararite. The Philistines gathered in a troop, and there was there a plot of the field full of lentils; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

• 2 Samuel 23:12

  But he took his stand in the middle of the plot and delivered it and struck the Philistines; and YHWH brought about a great salvation.

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and every good tree you will fell, and all the springs of water you will stop up, and every good plot of land you will ruin with stones.”

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They tore down the cities, and on every good plot of land each one threw his stone and they filled it; they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only in Kir-hareseth its stones were left; and the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Hitch up.” And his chariot was hitched up, and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  He said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, throw him into the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how I and you were riding side by side behind Ahab his father, when YHWH lifted up against him this oracle:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons I saw yesterday, declares YHWH, and I will repay you in this plot, declares YHWH.’ So now pick him up and throw him into the plot, according to the word of YHWH.”

• 1 Chronicles 11:13

  He was with David at Pas-dammim, and the Philistines had gathered there for battle; and there was a plot of the field full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.

• 1 Chronicles 11:14

  But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and delivered it, and they struck the Philistines; and YHWH saved them with a great salvation.

• Job 24:18

  Swift is he on the face of the waters; cursed is their plot in the land; he does not turn toward the road of the vineyards.

• Psalms 12:2

  Falsehood each one speaks with his neighbor; with flattering lips, with a double heart they speak.

• Psalms 12:3

  May YHWH cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely in slippery places you set them; you make them fall into ruins.

• Proverbs 6:24

  to keep you from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of the foreign woman.

• Isaiah 30:10

  who say to those who see, “Do not see,” and to the seers, “Do not see visions for us of what is right; speak to us smooth things, see visions of deceptions;

• Jeremiah 12:10

  Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled my portion; they have made the portion of my delight a wilderness of desolation.

• Amos 4:7

  And I also withheld from you the rain when there were still three months to the harvest; and I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain; one field would be rained on, and the field on which it did not rain would dry up.

And 4 more times.