Klēronomia κληρονομία

Klēronomia (Greek κληρονομία, Strong's G2817) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “inheritance”. It occurs 14 times in 14 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Inheritance

Verses

Every verse with Klēronomia, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• 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.But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

Mark

• Mark 12:7
  But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Luke

• Luke 12:13
  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
• 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.But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Acts

• Acts 7:5
  And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
• Acts 20:32
  And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Galatians

• Galatians 3:18
  For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Ephesians

• Ephesians 1:14
  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
• Ephesians 1:18
  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
• Ephesians 5:5
  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Colossians

• Colossians 3:24
  Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 9:15
  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
• Hebrews 11:8
  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

1 Peter

• 1 Peter 1:4
  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).