KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of inherit, meaning to receive or possess as one's portion or inheritance.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 32:18
Complete exact-word concordance
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Wee will not returne vnto our houses, vntill the children of Israel haue inherited euery man his inheritance:
AND these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
¶ And these are the countreys which the children of Israel inherited in the lande of Canaan, which Eleazar the Priest, & Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance to them:
1611 marginal noteNum. 34.17.
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
And gaue them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people:
1611 marginal noteIosh.13.17. deut.6.10.
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
O LORD, my strength and my fortresse, and my refuge in the day of affliction; the Gentiles shall come vnto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say; Surely our fathers haue inherited lyes, vanitie, and things wherein there is no profit.
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Sonne of man, they that inhabite those wastes of the land of Israel, speake, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many, the land is giuen vs for inheritance.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
For yee know how that afterward when hee would haue inherited the blessing, hee was reiected: for hee found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with teares.
1611 marginal noteOr, way to change his minde.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Received by descent from an ancestor; possessed.
