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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Passing from a parent to a child; as, a hereditary disease.

2. (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Greek

3971. patroos -- of one's fathers, received from one's fathers
... from one's fathers. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: patroos Phonetic
Spelling: (pat-ro'-os) Short Definition: hereditary Definition: hereditary ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5159. nachalah -- possession, property, inheritance
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition possession, property, inheritance NASB
Word Usage gift (1), give (1), hereditary (1), heritage (14), heritages (1 ...
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Library

Slum Novelists and the Slums
... a nation of kings. Next to a genuine republic, the most democratic thing
in the world is a hereditary despotism. I mean a despotism ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/xix slum novelists and the.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... feature of Roman society, which affected the position of the Church not a little,
was the tendency to regard callings and trades as hereditary, and by the ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm

Preface.
... Physical science is proving more and more the immense importance of Race; the
importance of hereditary powers, hereditary organs, hereditary habits, in all ...
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Additional Notes
... which they occur. B."The Hereditary Succession of the Coarbs Of Patrick.
Life, Secs.19.20, 30. The assertions of St. Bernard in ...
/.../st bernard of clairvauxs life of st malachy of armagh/additional notes.htm

Biographical Sketch.
... Another periodical presently repeated the paragraph, prefaced by the remark that
what is true in regard to faith"that it is not hereditary"is happily no ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/biographical sketch.htm

The Preparations of the Greeks for Defense.
... properly express the idea. They were commanders, chieftains, hereditary
generals, but not strictly kings. We shall, however, often ...
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Preface
... be necessarily like them. Hereditary Christianity in India is much like
hereditary Christianity at home. The Church in Tinnevelly ...
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'Make us a King'
... It was God who made the judges, and the introduction, in however slight a degree,
of the hereditary principle, was not only politically a blunder, but ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/make us a king.htm

Being Made Archbishop of Armagh, He Suffers Many Troubles. Peace ...
... But a very evil custom had developed, by the devilish ambition of certain powerful
persons, that the holy see[373] should be held by hereditary succession. ...
/.../chapter iv being made archbishop.htm

The Helvetic Consensus Formula. AD 1675.
... In connection with this doctrine of hereditary sin there arose among the Calvinists
of the seventeenth century a controversy about immediate or antecedent, and ...
/.../ 61 the helvetic consensus.htm

Thesaurus

Hereditary (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Passing from a parent to a child; as, a hereditary
disease. ... Multi-Version Concordance Hereditary (1 Occurrence). ...
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Priesthood (30 Occurrences)
... prest'-hood: 1. Priesthood Is an Office 2. In the Old Testament 3. Hereditary
Priesthood 4. In the New Testament 5. Conclusions LITERATURE All worship is based ...
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Heredity
... Moreover Deuteronomy 28:59-61 may contain a thought of hereditary diseases (compare
2 Kings 5:27). On the psychical side the data are almost equally scanty. ...
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Ahab (85 Occurrences)
... For the first time since the division of the kingdoms the hereditary internecine
quarrels are forgotten, "and Jehoshaphat," the good king of Judah, "made peace ...
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Jubilee (25 Occurrences)
... large. 2. It would render it impossible for any one to be born to absolute
poverty, since every one had his hereditary land. 3. It ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... important by the facts that the land was promised to the descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, that the priesthood was exclusively hereditary, that the royal ...
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Judah (802 Occurrences)
... of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into
Canaan 5. The Bond of Union 6. Early Rulers 7. The Judges 8. Hereditary Kings II ...
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Saul (371 Occurrences)
... Saul now undertook the great and difficult enterprise of freeing the land from its
hereditary enemies the Philistines, and for this end he gathered together an ...
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Hereby (17 Occurrences)

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Testaments
... Simon succeeded him, and by the help of the Romans was made hereditary ruler
of Palestine. He in turn was followed by John Hyrcanus. ...
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Bible Concordance

Hereditary (1 Occurrence)

Numbers 27:7 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
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Subtopics

Hereditary

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Priesthood (30 Occurrences)

Heredity

Ahab (85 Occurrences)

Jubilee (25 Occurrences)

Genealogy (29 Occurrences)

Judah (802 Occurrences)

Saul (371 Occurrences)

Hereby (17 Occurrences)

Testaments