מַחְלְקָה

mach.le.qah

class

Strong’s H4255Noun, feminine1 time in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

classes1

In the text

Ezra 6:18בְּמַחְלְקָתְהוֹן
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

[מַחְלְקָה] n.f. class, division, of priests and Levites;—pl. sf. Ezr 6:18.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.