Strong's Greek · G2818

κληρονόμος

klēronómos

Definitiona sharer by lot, i.e. inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor
Derivationfrom G2819 (κλῆρος) and the base of G3551 (νόμος) (in its original sense of partitioning, i.e. (reflexively) getting by apportionment);
KJV usageheir
Occurrences15 in the KJV · 14 verses

κληρονόμος in Scripture

Matthew 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. Mark 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Romans 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ' s, then are 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, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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