κληρόω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κλήρῳ: 1st aorist [[passive]] ἐκληρωθην; ([[κλῆρος]]); in classical Greek:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[cast]] lots, [[determine]] by [[lot]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[choose]] by [[lot]]: τινα ([[Herodotus]] 1,94; others).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[allot]], [[assign]] by [[lot]]: τινα τίνι, [[one]] to [[another]] as a [[possession]], [[Pindar]] Ol. 8,19.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[once]] in the N. T., "to [[make]] a [[κλῆρος]] i. e., a heritage, [[private]] [[possession]]": τινα, [[passive]] ἐν ᾧ ἐκληρώθημεν ([[but]] Lachmann ἐκλλεθημεν) in whom lies the [[reason]] [[why]] we were made the [[κλῆρος]] τοῦ Θεοῦ (a [[designation]] transferred from the Jews in the O. T. to Christians, cf. Additions to 4:17f] (4line 12 f (Tdf.)) and Fritzsche, in the [[place]] cited; (cf. to [[become]] a clergyman ([[see]] references [[under]] the [[word]] [[κλῆρος]], at the [[end]]).) (Compare: [[προσκληρόω]].)