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Strong’s G2816 · Greek

κληρονομέω

klēronoméō · klay-ron-om-eh'-o

Origin from κληρονόμος (G2818);

Meaning to be an heir to (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version be heir, (obtain by) inherit(-ance).

In 17 verses of the King James Version

  1. Matthew 5:5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
  2. Matthew 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
  3. Matthew 25:34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
  4. Mark 10:17And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
  5. Luke 10:25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  6. Luke 18:18And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
  7. 1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  8. 1 Corinthians 6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  9. 1 Corinthians 15:50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
  10. Galatians 4:30Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
  11. Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  12. Hebrews 1:4Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
  13. Hebrews 1:14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
  14. Hebrews 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  15. Hebrews 12:17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
  16. 1 Peter 3:9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
  17. Revelation 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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