Greek noun (feminine) · G1397
δουλεία
douleiadoo-li'-ah
slavery
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: douleía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1397is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1397
slavery (ceremonially or figuratively)
The King James renders it: bondage.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
douleia is rendered "slavery". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15δουλείας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bondage1
- of bondage1
- of slavery1
- slavery1
- to slavery1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δουλείας4
- δουλείαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Romans
two uses
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- δουλείαςdouleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of bondage
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- δουλείαςdouleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: bondage
Galatians
two uses
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
- δουλείανdouleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: slavery
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- δουλείαςdouleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of slavery
Hebrews
one use
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
- δουλείαςdouleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: to slavery
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.