'Heir' in the Bible
Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."
for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities?
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.