חֶלְקָ֑י
Helkai
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Helkai’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2517 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, חלקי (Chelqay) means “Helkai.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Nehemiah 12:15. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2517 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Helkai 1×
- American Standard Version: Helkai 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Helkai 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Helkai 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2517 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2517 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2517 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2517 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Helkai = "my portion is Jehovah"
- chief of Meremoth's priestly family in the time of Joiakim
Word origin
n.pr.m. priest, time of Joiakim son of Jeshua, Ne 12:15 (perhaps abbrev. for חלקיהו, (q.v.), 𝔊L Χελκιας (B om.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חלק (châlaq) (H2505) — to divide.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲלַק
- (b. h. חֶלְקָה, v. חֵלֶק) lot, field. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLIX, 21 (Var. חַקְלָא).—Pl. constr. חַלְקֵי. Targ. I Chr. VIII, 8 Var. (ed. חקלי).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2517, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חלק chêleq H2506 portion
- חלק chălâq H2508 possession
- חלק châlâq H2509 flattering
- חלק challâq H2511 smooth
- חלק challuq H2512 smooth
- חלקה chălaqqâh H2514 flattery
- חלקלקה chălaqlaqqâh H2519 flattery
- מחלקת machălôqeth H4256 course
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Helkai). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Smooth-tongued, one of the chief priests in the time of Joiakim (Neh. 12:15).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Helek
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
