Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. 2. (n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. 3. (n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. 4. (n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. 5. (v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into. 6. (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. 7. (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. 8. (a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.] Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PARCEL par'-sel: Properly "a little part," in Elizabethan English being used in almost any sense. In the King James Version of Genesis 33:19 Joshua 24:32 Ruth 4:3 1 Chronicles 11:13, 14 it is the translation of chelqah; John 4:5 of chorion-both the Greek and Hebrew words meaning a "piece of land." the Revised Version (British and American) writes "plot" in 1 Chronicles 11:13, 14, but if the change was needed at all, it should have been made throughout.

Multi-Version Concordance Parcel (10 Occurrences) John 4:5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS) Genesis 33:19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. (WEB KJV JPS ASV) Genesis 42:35 And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear. (BBE) Joshua 24:32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS) Ruth 4:3 He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV) 1 Chronicles 11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. (KJV WBS) 1 Chronicles 11:14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance. (KJV WBS) Psalms 60:6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. (See NIV) Psalms 108:7 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. (See NIV) Daniel 11:39 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges him he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price. (See NAS)