κληρονομέω

Matthew 5:5 κληρονομήσουσιν will inherit

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Here: Future tense: they will come into possession. The land comes to them as a gift and an allotted share from God, not as plunder taken by force.

Matthew 19:29 κληρονομήσει.¶ will inherit.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Here: "Will inherit", that is, receive as one's rightful share in God's family. It reverses the loss: people who gave up the family fields receive God's own inheritance.

Matthew 25:34 κληρονομήσατε do inherit

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Here: An aorist imperative, a decisive command: 'take possession now!' This is family and land language for receiving one's rightful portion as an heir. No death is implied.

Mark 10:17 κληρονομήσω;¶ I may inherit?

As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Here: 'May I inherit': receive as your own share, as a member of God's family. The word comes from Israel's tribes receiving their portions of the promised land. It does not suggest anyone dying.

Luke 10:25 κληρονομήσω; will I inherit?

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Here: "Will I inherit?" (future tense). This is the language of receiving one's allotted share as a rightful heir, the way Israel "inherited" the land. He is asking how to make sure he has a share in the promised future.

Luke 18:18 κληρονομήσω; will I inherit?

Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Here: 'Will I inherit?' To receive your allotted share as a rightful heir. It echoes Israel inheriting the Promised Land, and later the hope of 'a share in the age to come'. The future tense looks ahead to that age.

1 Corinthians 6:9 κληρονομήσουσιν;¶ will inherit?

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Here: Future tense, pointing to the final judgment. Inheritance language recalls Israel receiving the promised land. Here the 'land' is a share in God's coming reign, received as an heir and not earned as wages.

1 Corinthians 6:10 κληρονομήσουσιν. will inherit.

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Here: Future tense: 'they will inherit', looking ahead to the final day. The word means receiving one's allotted share as a rightful heir, the way Israel's tribes received the land. That picture assumes belonging to the family.

1 Corinthians 15:50 κληρονομῆσαι κληρονομεῖ. to inherit, does inherit.

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Here: To come into possession of an allotted share as an heir. The word echoes Israel receiving the promised land as its inheritance. Here it means entering and possessing the coming kingdom.

Galatians 4:30 κληρονομήσει will inherit

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Here: To receive an heir's share. In Galatians the inheritance is the promise God made to Abraham (3:18, 29; 4:7). The future tense looks ahead to who finally receives it.

Galatians 5:21 κληρονομήσουσιν. will inherit.

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Here: Future: 'will inherit'. It means receiving one's share as a rightful heir. In Galatians this ties straight into Paul's argument about who the true heirs of Abraham are (3:18, 29; 4:7, 30).

Hebrews 1:4 κεκληρονόμηκεν He has inherited

So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.

Here: 'He has inherited (and still holds).' The perfect tense describes a completed act with a lasting result. It picks up v.2, where God appointed the Son 'heir of all things': what he receives, he receives as the son and rightful heir.

Hebrews 1:14 κληρονομεῖν to inherit

Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Here: To receive what belongs to you as a family member. It echoes the Son, 'heir of all things' (1:2), who 'inherited' a better name than the angels (1:4). Believers share the Son's inheritance; angels are servants in the house, not heirs.

Hebrews 6:12 κληρονομούντων inheriting

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Here: 'Those who inherit' or 'are inheriting.' The present tense describes the kind of people who come into the promised portion, as a general description, without fixing a moment. The word recalls Israel receiving its allotted inheritance from God.

Hebrews 12:17 κληρονομῆσαι to inherit

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

Here: "To inherit": receive what passes to an heir. This is a key word in Hebrews (1:14; 6:12, 17), where believers are heirs of the promise. Esau stands for an heir who lost the inheritance.

1 Peter 3:9 κληρονομήσητε. you may inherit.

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

Here: To receive something as an heir, by right of belonging to the family, not by buying or earning it. It recalls Israel's inheritance of the land and 1 Peter's "inheritance imperishable" (1:4).

Revelation 21:7 κληρονομήσει he will inherit

The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

Here: Future: 'will receive as an inheritance'. This is the language of Israel receiving the promised land as its allotted share, and of an heir taking up an estate. The word leads directly to the word 'son' at the end of the verse.