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Strong's #2818: kleronomos (pronounced klay-ron-om'-os)

from 2819 and the base of 3551 (in its original sense of partitioning, i.e. (reflexively) getting by apportionment); a sharer by lot, i.e. inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor:--heir.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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klēronomos

1) one who receives by lot, an heir

1a) an heir

1b) in Messianic usage, one who receives his allotted possession by right of sonship

2) one who has acquired or obtained the portion allotted to him

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2819 and the base of G3551 (in its original sense of partitioning, i.e. [reflexively] getting by apportionment)

Citing in TDNT: 3:767, 442




Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Matthew 21:38: "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and"
Mark 12:7: "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and"
Luke 20:14: "This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that"
Romans 4:13: "that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham,"
Romans 4:14: "they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the"
Romans 8:17: "if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and"
Romans 8:17: "children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs"
Galatians 3:29: "ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Galatians 4:1: "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child,"
Galatians 4:7: "if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
Titus 3:7: "by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
Hebrews 1:2: "his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also"
Hebrews 6:17: "willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability"
Hebrews 11:7: "he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness"
James 2:5: "in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised"









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