Strong’s G4789 · Greek

συγκληρονόμος
synklēronómos

Definition

a co-heir, i.e. (by analogy) participant in common

Etymology

from G4862 (σύν) and G2818 (κληρονόμος);

Where the KJV renders it

  • fellow (joint)-heir
  • heir together
  • heir with

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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