כחל

כָחַל(b. h.; denom. of נַחֲלָה, q. v.) to inherit. B. Bath. VIII, 1 יש נוֹחֲלִין ומַנְחִילִין there are such relations as inherit from and eventually transmit to one another (e. g. father and son); ויש נוחלין ולא מנחילין and some inherit, but (when they die) do not transmit their estate to those whose natural heirs they would have been (e. g. son and mother). Kidd.I, 10 ונוֹחֵל את הארץ and shall inherit the land (of life everlasting). Sifré Num. 133 יודע … שהבנות נוֹחֲלוֹת Moses knew that daughters (in the absence of sons) are legal heirs. Midr. Till. to Ps. 5, beg. (ref. to Num. 21:19) משנָחֲלוּע״ז בא עליהםוכ׳ when they adopted idolatry, the angel of death came upon them. Ib. נחלו להק״בה לאלוה והוא נ׳וכ׳ they adopted the Lord as God, and he adopted them as a people; ib. ממתנה נָחַלְתִּי לאל through the gift (of the well in the desert) I adopted God; מתוך שנתן ליהקב״ה הבאר נחלתי אותו (ed. Bub.) because the Lord gave me the well as a gift, I adopted him; Erub.54a וכיון שניתנה לו במתנה נְחָלֹו אל and since it (the Law) is given him as a gift, the Lord claims him as his own; a. fr. Hif. הִנְחִיל to transmit by legal succession; to give in possession. B. Bath. l. c., v. supra. Tosef.B. Mets. XI, 32, a. fr. שעל מנת בןה׳וכ׳ for Joshua gave possession of the land with such provisions (restricting the rights of ownership). Ukts. III, 12 עתיד הקכ״ה להַנְחִילוכ׳ (Snh.100a ליתן) the Lord will in the hereafter give every righteous man possession of B. Bath. 114b אין הבן יורש את אמו בקבר להנחילוכ׳ a son in the grave does not succeed his mother so as to transmit his estate to his paternal brothers; a. fr.