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Lexicon :: Strong's G2819 - klēros

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κλῆρος
Transliteration
klēros (Key)
Pronunciation
klay'-ros
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from κλάω (G2806) (through the idea of using bits of wood, etc., for the purpose)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:758,442

Strong’s Definitions

κλῆρος klēros, klay'-ros; probably from G2806 (through the idea of using bits of wood, etc., for the purpose; a die (for drawing chances); by implication, a portion (as if so secured); by extension, an acquisition (especially a patrimony, figuratively):—heritage, inheritance, lot, part.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G2819 in the following manner: lot (8x), part (2x), inheritance (2x), heritage (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G2819 in the following manner: lot (8x), part (2x), inheritance (2x), heritage (1x).

  1. an object used in casting or drawing lots, which was either a pebble, or a potsherd, or a bit of wood

    1. the lots of several persons concerned, inscribed with their names, were thrown together into a vase, which was then shaken, and he whose lot fell out first upon the ground was the one chosen

  2. what is obtained by lot, allotted portion

    1. a portion of the ministry common to the apostles

    2. used of the part which one will have in eternal salvation

      1. of salvation itself

      2. the eternal salvation which God has assigned to the saints

    3. of persons

      1. those whose care and oversight has been assigned to one [allotted charge], used of Christian churches, the administration of which falls to the lot of presbyters

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κλῆρος klēros, klay'-ros; probably from G2806 (through the idea of using bits of wood, etc., for the purpose; a die (for drawing chances); by implication, a portion (as if so secured); by extension, an acquisition (especially a patrimony, figuratively):—heritage, inheritance, lot, part.
STRONGS G2819:
κλῆρος, κλήρου, ὁ, from Homer down; the Sept. mostly for גּורָל and נַחֲלָה; a lot; i. e.:
1. an object used in casting or drawing lots, which was either a pebble, or a potsherd, or a bit of wood (hence, κλῆρος is to be derived from κλάω (cf. Ellicott on Colossians 1:12)): Acts 1:26 (see below); βάλλοντες κλῆρον, Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:24 (Psalm 21:19 (Ps. 22:19); Jonah 1:7, etc.); the lots of the several persons concerned, inscribed with their names, were thrown together into a vase, which was then shaken, and he whose lot first fell out upon the ground was the one chosen (Homer, Iliad 3, 316, 325; 7, 175, etc.; Livy 23, 3 (but cf. B. D. American edition, under the word Lot)); hence, ὁ κλῆρος πίπτει ἐπί τινα, Acts 1:26 (Ezekiel 24:6; Jonah 1:7).
2. what is obtained by lot, allotted portion: λαγχάνειν and λαμβάνειν τόν κλῆρον τῆς διακονίας, a prrtion in the ministry common to the apostles, Acts 1:17, 25 R G; ἐστι μοι κλῆρος ἐν τίνι, dative of the thing, Acts 8:21; like κληρονομία (which see) it is used of the part which one will have in eternal salvation, λαμβάνειν... τόν κλῆρον ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις, among the sanctified, Acts 26:18 (Wis. 5:5); of eternal salvation itself, κλῆρος τῶν ἁγίων, i. e. the eternal salvation which God has assigned to the saints, Colossians 1:12 (where cf. Lightfoot). of persons, οἱ κλῆροι, those whose care and oversight has been assigned to one (allotted charge), used of Christian churches, the administration of which falls to the lot of the presbyters: 1 Peter 5:3, cf. Acts 17:4; (for patristic usage see Sophocles Lexicon, under the word; cf. Lightfoot on Philippians, p. 246f).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
22:19
Ezekiel
24:6
Jonah
1:7; 1:7
Matthew
27:35
Mark
15:24
Luke
23:34
John
19:24
Acts
1:17; 1:25; 1:26; 1:26; 8:21; 17:4; 26:18
Colossians
1:12; 1:12
1 Peter
5:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2819 matches the Greek κλῆρος (klēros),
which occurs 132 times in 115 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 48:6–Jos 12:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - And the children which thou shalt beget hereafter, shall be in the name of their brethren; they shall be named after their inheritances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14 - Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:8 - And I will bring you into the land concerning which I stretched out my hand to give it to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, and I will give it you for an inheritance: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:8 - And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scape-goat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:9 - And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - And the goat upon which the lot of the scape-goat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scape-goat, and he shall send him into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have [fn]put out the eyes of those men? we [fn]will not go up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - And, behold, I have given to the sons of Levi every tithe in Israel for an inheritance for their services, whereinsoever they perform ministry in the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - Thou shalt also speak to the Levites, and shalt say to them, If ye take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall ye separate from it a heave-offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - Thou shalt divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:53 - And ye shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land, and ye shall dwell in it, for I have given their land to you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - And ye shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number ye shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller ye shall give the less possession; to whatsoever part [fn]a man's name shall go forth by lot, there shall be his property: ye shall inherit according to the tribes of your families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - And Moses charged the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, even as the Lord commanded us to give it to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - For the tribe of the children of Ruben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received their inheritance according to their [fn]families; and the half-tribe of Manasse have received their inheritances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the [fn]lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about [fn]them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - and they said, The Lord commanded our lord to render the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord appointed our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - And the Lord said to me, Do not ye quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - and ye shall draw nigh to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - but stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - And these are thy people and thy portion, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great strength, and with thy mighty hand, and with thy high arm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:31 - For ye are passing over Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to inherit always, and ye shall dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - And these are the ordinances and the judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you for an inheritance, all the days which ye live upon the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is at your gates; because he has no portion or inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - For thus there shall not be a poor person in the midst of thee, for the Lord thy God will surely bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee by inheritance, that thou shouldest inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - And when thou shalt enter into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt-offerings of the Lord are their inheritance, they shall eat them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself is his portion, as he said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, and there shall not be in thee one guilty of blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Thou shalt not move the landmarks of thy neighbour, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for [fn] every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shalt not forget to do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1 - And it shall be when thou shalt have entered into the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit it, and thou shalt have inherited it, and thou shalt have dwelt upon it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8 - (LXX 29:7) And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew beyond Jordan by the sea of Balagad in the plain of Libanus, and as far as the mountain of Chelcha, as men go up to Seir: and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel to inherit according to their portion;

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