κληροδοσία
inheritance, allotment
Where this word appears
Every passage where κληροδοσία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 77:55 κληροδοσία And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Ecclesiastes 7:11 κληροδοσία Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire in wisdom concerning this.
- Daniel 11:21 κληροδοσία One shall stand on his place, who has been set a nothing, and they have not put upon him the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.
- Daniel 11:34 κληροδοσία And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.
About this word
About this word
κληροδοσία (klērodosía), “inheritance, allotment,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
