# H2505 חָלַק

חָלַק (châlaq), Strong’s H2505: to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate KJV: deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-)…

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*châlaq* — to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate

KJV: deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-) part(-ner), take away a portion…

Occurs 65 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָלַק vb. be smooth, slippery
- Qal smooth, slippery
- Hiph. make smooth
- חָלַק vb
- חָלַק vb. divide, share
- Qal
- 1 divide, apportion
- 2 assign, distribute
- 3 assign, impart
- 4 share
- 5 divide up = plunder the temple
- Niph. Impf.
- 1 reflex. divide oneself
- 2 pass. be divided
- 3 trans. assign, distribute
- Pi.
- 1 divide, apportion
- 2 assign, distribute
- 3 scatter
- Pu. be divided, of land
- Hithp. divide land among themselves
- Hiph. to receive a portion

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15) — He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…
- [Genesis 49:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=7) — Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter…
- [Genesis 49:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=27) — “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”
- [Exodus 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=9) — The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will…
- [Numbers 26:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=53) — “To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
- [Numbers 26:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=55) — Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall…
- [Numbers 26:56](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=56) — According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”
- [Deuteronomy 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=19) — and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of…
- [Deuteronomy 29:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=25) — and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
- [Joshua 13:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=7) — Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”