'Heir' in the Bible
And Abram saith, 'Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
And lo, the word of Jehovah is unto him, saying, 'This one doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'
and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left -- so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.'
Concerning the sons of Ammon: 'Thus said Jehovah: Sons -- hath Israel none? heir -- hath he none? Wherefore hath Malcam possessed Gad? And his people in its cities have dwelt?
and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
and those husbandmen said among themselves -- This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance;
and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;
For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.