Klēronómos — G2818

Definition

masculine noun

a sharer by lot, i.e. inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor

1. an heir
1. properly
2. in Messianic usage, one who receives his allotted possession by right of sonship
2. the idea of inheritance having disappeared, one who has acquired or obtained the portion allotted him

Usually translated as

heir

Origin

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

• klēros (G2819)
• nómos (G3551)

Occurrences

Klēronómos occurs 15 times in 14 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (1), Romans (3), Galatians (3), Titus (1), Hebrews (3), James (1)

• Matthew 21:38 — But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir (κληρονόμος); 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 (κληρονόμος); 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 (κληρονόμος): come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
• Romans 4:13 — For the promise, that he should be the heir (κληρονόμον) 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 (κληρονόμοι), faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
• Romans 8:17 — And if children, then heirs (κληρονόμοι); heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
• Romans 8:17 — And if children, then heirs; heirs (κληρονόμοι) 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 (κληρονόμοι) according to the promise.
• Galatians 4:1 — Now I say, That the heir (κληρονόμος), 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 (κληρονόμος) of God through Christ.
• Titus 3:7 — That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs (κληρονόμοι) 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 (κληρονόμον) of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
• Hebrews 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs (κληρονόμοις) of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• 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 (κληρονόμος) of the righteousness which is by faith.
• James 2:5 — Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs (κληρονόμους) of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?