Greek noun (feminine) · G2817
κληρονομία
kleronomiaklay-ron-om-ee'-ah
inheritance
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: klēronomía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2817is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2817
heirship, i.e. (concretely) a patrimony or (genitive case) a possession
The King James renders it: inheritance.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kleronomia is rendered "inheritance". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ephesians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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.’
Matthew 21:38κληρονομίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- inheritance11
- an inheritance3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κληρονομέω | kleronomeo | to inherit | Uses18 |
| κληρονόμος | kleronomos | heir | Uses15 |
| κλῆρος | kleros | lot | Uses11 |
| κληρόω | kleroo | to obtain | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κληρονομίαν7
- κληρονομίας4
- κληρονομία3
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular7N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
Matthew
one use
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.’
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Mark
one use
But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
- κληρονομίαkleronomianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Luke
two uses
Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
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.’
- κληρονομίαkleronomianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Acts
two uses
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.
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an inheritance
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.
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Galatians
one use
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.
- κληρονομίαkleronomianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Ephesians
three uses
who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
- κληρονομίαςkleronomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
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,
- κληρονομίαςkleronomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
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.
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Colossians
one use
because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
- κληρονομίαςkleronomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
Hebrews
two uses
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.
- κληρονομίαςkleronomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inheritance
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.
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an inheritance
1 Peter
one use
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
- κληρονομίανkleronomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an inheritance
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.