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Strong's G2818 · Greek

κληρονόμος

kleronomos · 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


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

κληρο-νόμος (G2818)

15 κληρο-νόμος , -ου, ὁ ( κλῆρος , νέμομαι , to possess ), [in LXX: Jg 18:7 , II Ki 14:7 , Mi 1:15 , Je 8:10 ( יוֹרֵשׁ ), Si 23:22 *;] (as in cl.) an heir : Mt 21:38 , Mk 12:7 , Lk 20:14 , Ga 4:1 ; of those who as sons of God inherit the privileges of the Messianic Kingdom; of Christ himself, He 1:2 ; of Abraham, Ro 4:13 , 14 ; of Christians, Ro 8:17 , Ga 3:29 , Tit 3:7 , Ja 2:5 . (As in LXX: Jg 18:7 , Mi 1:15 , Je 8:10 ) a possessor : He 6:17 11:7 (Cremer, 359 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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