οἰκέτης
oikétēs · G3610 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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house servant, household servant, personal servant
A servant in a household
ExamplesLuke 16:13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
Acts 10:7 When the angel who spoke to him left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier from his personal attendants,
Romans 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀλλότριοςbelonging to another 1
- οὐδείςno one 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δύναμαιcan 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κρίνωto judge 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δύοtwo 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- δοῦλος doûlos · G1401 · subservient to, controlled by, slave
- οἰκέτης denotes specifically a household servant, a subset of the broader category of slaves or bondservants that δοῦλος covers in all contexts. This represents a genuine general-to-specific relationship within the semantic field of servitude, with the target picking out one particular institutional setting — the household — of the broader slave category that δοῦλος names.
In the other Testament 1 word
- עֶבֶד ʻebed · H5650 · slave, servant, officer
- Hebrew עֶבֶד (ʻebed, H5650) denotes a servant or slave in a household or broader social structure, directly corresponding to Greek οἰκέτης (oikétēs, G3610) as the standard translation equivalent for domestic servant/household slave terminology across the LXX corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- House servant, household servant, personal servant46.5
- Teaching on undivided loyalty, Luke 16:13 states “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other,” where “servant” renders this noun for a household servant.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἰκέτου, ὁ (οἰκέω), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, Latindomesticus, i. e. one who…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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