KJV dictionary & concordance
One entitled or appointed to receive an inheritance.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 15:3
Complete exact-word concordance
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they said among themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and let vs sease on his inheritance.
1611 marginal noteChap. 26.3. iohn. 11.53.
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Historical English dictionary sources
One who succeeds or is entitled to succeed another in a possession or estate; one who inherits; in Scripture, one entitled to possess what is granted by promise or God's gracious provision.
