Strong’s G2817 · Greek

κληρονομία
klēronomía

Definition

heirship, i.e. (concretely) a patrimony or (genitive case) a possession

Etymology

from G2818 (κληρονόμος);

Where the KJV renders it

  • inheritance

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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