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Heritage

her´i - tā̇j ( נחלה , naḥălāh , from nāḥal , "to give"; κληρόω , klēróō ): That which is allotted, possession, property, portion, share, peculiar right, inheritance; applied to land transferred from the Canaanites to Israel ( Psalm 11:6; Psalm 136:22 ); to Israel, as the heritage of Yahweh (Joel 3:2 , etc.). In the New Testament (Ephesians 1:11 ) applied to believers, the spiritual Israel, as God's peculiar possession (Ellicott, Eadie).