ḥelqah

This is the ordinary word for a specific piece of ground. Not open countryside, but a bounded parcel that belongs to somebody, has edges, and can be bought, sold, farmed, fought over, or ruined. It is the word for the field Jacob bought at Shechem, the barley plot Naboth owned that cost him his life, and the strip of lentils David's warrior defended single-handed.

Because a piece of land is also something handed out and owned, the word stretches naturally from the physical plot to the idea of an allotted share, the portion that falls to a person. The two shades are close: even when it means a share, the thing shared is almost always land.

All of these senses come from a root meaning to divide or apportion. A field is, at bottom, a divided-off piece of the ground, which is why the same word can name both the parcel itself and one's assigned part of it.

This word names the quality of being smooth. It can be literal, the hairless skin of a neck or a stretch of slick, slippery ground where a person loses their footing. From that physical picture the word moves to speech: words that are smooth, that slide easily and pleasantly off the tongue.

In the Bible smooth words are almost never a compliment. They are the polished lines of a seducer, the soothing lies people demand instead of hard truth, the flattery that hides a trap. The smoothness is exactly what makes them dangerous, because it lowers the listener's guard.

This meaning comes from a separate root that means to be smooth or slippery, unrelated to the root behind the word for a plot of land. The two are spelled and pronounced alike but are genuinely different words that happen to look the same.