Parcel
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
(2): ( n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
(3): ( n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
(4): ( n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
(5): ( v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
(6): ( v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; - often with out or into.
(7): ( v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
(8): ( a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
King James Dictionary [2]
P`ARCEL, n. L. particula, particle, from pars, part.
1. A part a portion of any thing taken separately.
The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.
2. A quantity any mass. 3. A part belonging to a whole as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece. 4. A small bundle or package of goods. 5. A number of persons on contempt. 6. A number or quantity in contempt as a parcel of fair words.
P`ARCEL, To divide into parts or portions as, to parcel an estate among heirs.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
1. To make up into a mass. Little used.
To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
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; Rth 4:3; 1 Chronicles 11:13 , 1 Chronicles 11:14 it is the translation of חלקה , ḥelḳāh ; John 4:5 of χωρίον , chōrı̄on - both the Greek and Hebrew words meaning a "piece of land." the Revised Version (British and American) writes "plot" in 1 Chronicles 11:13 , 1 Chronicles 11:14 , but if the change was needed at all, it should have been made throughout.
