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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).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - “Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14 - “Issachar is a strong donkey,
Lying down between two burdens;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:8 - ‘And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:8 - “Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:9 - “And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - “But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - “Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:21 - “Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:24 - “For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:26 - “Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the LORD, a tenth of the tithe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - “But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - “According to the lot their inheritance shall be divided between the larger and the smaller.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - Now those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above; for they were not numbered among the other children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The daughters of Zelophehad speak what is right; you shall surely give them a possession of inheritance among their father’s brothers, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - “For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:53 - ‘you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - ‘And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - “For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - “The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - And they said: “The LORD commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “Now if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - “Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - “Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - ‘And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - “Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - “Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - ‘But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - ‘Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:31 - “For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - “And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - “You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - “And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:4 - “except when there may be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - “When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - “Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - “lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - “You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - “his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - “then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - “You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - “Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:1 - “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8 - “We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

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