οἰκοδεσπότης
oikodespótēs · G3617 · Greek · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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master of the household
One who owns and manages a household, including family, servants, and slaves
ExamplesMatthew 10:25 “It is enough for the disciple that he may become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they insult the members of his household!
Matthew 13:27 “And the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’
Matthew 13:52 And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure new things and old.”
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οἰκίαhouse, home, dwelling 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 2
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- εἴδωto know 2
- ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- ὀργίζωto be full of anger 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπικαλέομαιto call, to name, to call upon 1
It is given or told toIndirect object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δοῦλοςslave, bondservant 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Master of the household57.14
- In the parable of the weeds, Matthew 13:27 states “the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?’” where “the landowner” renders this noun for the head of the household who owns the property.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἰκοδεσπότου, ὁ (οἶκος, δεσπότης), master of a house, householder: Mt 10:25; Mt 13:27; Mt…
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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