Greek noun (masculine) · G3610
οἰκέτης
oiketesoy-ket'-ace
slave
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: oikétēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3610is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3610
a fellow resident, i.e. menial domestic
The King James renders it: (household) servant.
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
oiketes is rendered "slave". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Luke 16:13οἰκέτης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- servant2
- servants2
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- οἰκέται1
- οἰκέτην1
- οἰκέτης1
- οἰκετῶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
- noun · vocative (address) · masculine plural1N-VPM
Luke
one use
No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
- οἰκέτηςoiketesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: servant
Acts
one use
When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.
- οἰκετῶνoiketonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: servants
Romans
one use
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
- οἰκέτηνoiketennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: servant
1 Peter
one use
Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.
- οἰκέταιoiketainoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Servants
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.