KJV dictionary & concordance
A possession, portion, or heritage received by descent, allotment, promise, or divine gift.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 31:14
Complete exact-word concordance
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
¶ When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
¶ When they had made an end of diuiding the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gaue an inheritance to Ioshua the sonne of Nun among them:
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
These are the inheritances which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, diuided for an inheritance by lot, in Shiloh before the LORD, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so they made an end of diuiding the countrey.
1611 marginal noteNum. 34.17.
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.
And the children of Israel gaue vnto the Leuites out of their inheritance at the commandement of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Behold, I haue diuided vnto you by lot these nations that remaine, to bee an inheritance for your tribes, from Iordan, with all the nations that I haue cut off, euen vnto the great Sea Westward.
1611 marginal noteHebr. at the Sunne set.
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
So Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the North side of the hill of Gaash.
1611 marginal noteChap. 19.50. iudg. 2.9.
¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
¶ And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought vp out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcell of ground which Iacob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of siluer; and it became the inheritance of the children of Ioseph.
1611 marginal noteOr, lambs.
1611 marginal noteGen. 50.25. exod. 13.19.
1611 marginal noteGene. 33.19.
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Historical English dictionary sources
An estate or possession received by hereditary right; a possession that may descend to an heir; an estate given by donation or divine appropriation; that which is possessed or enjoyed.
