Bible Dictionary: Legacy

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A gift by a will of money or personal property; a bequest; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

2. (n.) A business with which one is entrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

Greek

2818. kleronomos -- an heir
... Lot-casting determined land allotments (distribution) related to inheritance, as
well as to "title-deeds, legacy, inheritance, heritable estate" ().]. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2506. cheleq -- portion, tract, territory
... tract, territory NASB Word Usage associate (1), catch (1), divisions (2), equal
portions (1), farm land (1), inheritance (1), land (1), legacy (1), lot (1 ...
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Library

A Valuable Legacy.
... A VALUABLE LEGACY. A legacy ... legacies. I am now to tell you of the greatest
and most valuable legacy that has ever been left to man. It ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/a valuable legacy.htm

His Legacy.
... His Legacy. BLESSED ... Father. At that time He gave His blessed legacy. "Peace
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you" (John 14:27). ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the lord of glory/his legacy.htm

Legacy to a Friend
... Legacy to a Friend. The author had often remarked the very grateful manner in
which the youth acknowledged any kindness shown towards him. ...
/.../murray/kalli the esquimaux christian /legacy to a friend.htm

Spiritual Peace
... OUR LORD WAS now about to die, to depart from this world, and to ascend to his Father;
he therefore makes his will; and this is the blessed legacy which he ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/spiritual peace.htm

The Groups Round the Cross
... Yet this was He who bequeathed the vastest legacy that ever has been left by any
human being"a legacy ample enough to enrich the whole world. ...
/.../stalker/the trial and death of jesus christ/chapter xiii the groups round.htm

The Choice of Pursuits.
... subsistence. And even if their legacy render it unnecessary to be followed in
order to subsistence, it is a duty which is due to the state. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/philips/the christian home/chapter xxi the choice of.htm

Christ Pleads his Will
... " " John 17:24. Jesus presented the precious legacy of His prayer when He
offered His intercessory prayer preserved for us by John. ...
/.../anderson/prayer availeth much/chapter 14 christ pleads his.htm

Design of the Treatise. Disavowal of Personal Motives in Writing ...
... such matters, why ought we not much more to take forethought for our posterity
[342] in things divine and heavenly, and in a sense to bequeath a legacy to be ...
/.../tertullian/to his wife/chapter i design of the treatise.htm

Life on the Top Floor
... If the animal has left me as its legacy a vertebral column and certain nerves,
why should it not leave me a legacy of its modes and passions? ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/v life on the top.htm

General Considerations.
... The legacy of his generation to the Nicene age was an Origenism tempered in various
degrees by the Asiatic theology and by accommodations to the traditional ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/section 1 general considerations.htm

Thesaurus

Legacy (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A gift by a will of money or personal property;
a bequest; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. ...Legacy (1 Occurrence). ...
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Legal (13 Occurrences)

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Leg (24 Occurrences)

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Leave (341 Occurrences)
... 11. (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large
estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece. 12. ...
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Foundation (82 Occurrences)
... masonry. 4. (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable
institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. 5 ...
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Aristobulus (1 Occurrence)
... were his slaves, and that upon his death they had kept together and had become the
property of the emperor either by purchase or as a legacy, in which event ...
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Substitution (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either
on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to ...
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Havvothjair
... Version Havoth-Jair, ha-voth-ja'ir): The word chawwoth occurs only in this combination
(Numbers 32:41 Deuteronomy 3:14 Judges 10:4), and is a legacy from the ...
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Havvoth-jair (5 Occurrences)
... Version Havoth-Jair, ha-voth-ja'ir): The word chawwoth occurs only in this combination
(Numbers 32:41 Deuteronomy 3:14 Judges 10:4), and is a legacy from the ...
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Messenger (235 Occurrences)
... In all essential respects it is just the vernacular koine of the 1st century AD,
the lingua franca of the Greek-Roman empire, the legacy of Alexander the ...
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Bible Concordance

Legacy (1 Occurrence)

Ecclesiastes 2:21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
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Subtopics

Legacy

Related Terms

Legal (13 Occurrences)

Leg (24 Occurrences)

Leave (341 Occurrences)

Foundation (82 Occurrences)

Aristobulus (1 Occurrence)

Substitution (1 Occurrence)

Havvothjair

Havvoth-jair (5 Occurrences)

Messenger (235 Occurrences)