Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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Heir
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Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
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יָרַשׁ
yârash · yaw-rash'
9 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin
Strong's KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.
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Strong's first: Genesis 15:3Strong's last: Micah 1:15
Open full H3423 profile →κληρονόμος
klēronómos · klay-ron-om'-os
8 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
a sharer by lot, i.e. inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor
Strong's KJV usage: :--heir.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:38Strong's last: Hebrews 11:7
Open full G2818 profile →κληρονομέω
klēronoméō · klay-ron-om-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
to be an heir to (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be heir, (obtain by) inherit(-ance).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Galatians 4:30Strong's last: Galatians 4:30
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G2818
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.
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heir
HEIR, noun are. [Latin haeres, haeredis.]
1. The man who succeeds, or is to succeed another in the possession of lands, tenements and hereditaments, by descent; the man on whom the law casts an estate of inheritance by the death of the ancestor or former possessor; or the man in whom the title to an estate of inheritance is vested by the operation of law, on the death of a former owner.
We give the title to a person who is to inherit after the death of an ancestor, and during his life, as well as to the person who has actually come into possession. A man's children are his heirs. In most monarchies, the king's eldest son is heir to the throne; and a nobleman's eldest son is heir to his title.
Lo, one born in my house is my heir Genesis 15:3.
2. One who inherits, or takes from an ancestor. The son is often heir to the disease, or to the miseries of the father.
3. One who succeeds to the estate of a former possessor. Jeremiah 49:1. Micah 1:15.
4. One who is entitled to possess. In Scripture, saints are called heirs of the promise, heirs of righteousness, heirs of salvation, etc., by virtue of the death of Christ, or of God's gracious promises.
HEIR-presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be heir but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by any contingency, as by the birth of a nearer relative.
HEIR, verb transitive are. To inherit; to take possession of an estate of inheritance, after the death of the ancestor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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