Greek noun (masculine) · G3617
οἰκοδεσπότης
oikodespotesoy-kod-es-pot'-ace
householder
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: oikodespótēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3617is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3617
the head of a family
The King James renders it: goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house.
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
oikodespotes is rendered "householder". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:25It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
Matthew 10:25οἰκοδεσπότην
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
- master of the house8
- a master of a house3
- master1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἶκος | oikos | house: household | Uses112 |
| οἰκοδομέω | oikodomeo | to build | Uses40 |
| οἰκοδομή | oikodome | building | Uses18 |
| οἰκουμένη | oikoumene | world | Uses15 |
| οἰκονόμος | oikonomos | manager | Uses10 |
| οἰκονομία | oikonomia | management | Uses9 |
| οἰκονομέω | oikonomeo | to manage | Uses1 |
| οἰκοδεσποτέω | oikodespoteo | to manage a house | Uses1 |
| οἰκουρός | oikouros | busy at home | Usesnot recorded |
| οἰκοδομία | oikodomia | edification | Usesnot recorded |
All 12, 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
- οἰκοδεσπότης5
- οἰκοδεσπότῃ4
- οἰκοδεσπότου2
- οἰκοδεσπότην1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular4N-DSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
Matthew
seven uses
It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
- οἰκοδεσπότηνoikodespotennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
- οἰκοδεσπότουoikodespotounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
- οἰκοδεσπότῃoikodespotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: a master of a house
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
- οἰκοδεσπότῃoikodespotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: a master of a house
On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
- οἰκοδεσπότουoikodespotounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a master of a house
But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
- οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
Mark
one use
and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
- οἰκοδεσπότῃoikodespotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
Luke
four uses
But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
- οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
- οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
- οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespotesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: master of the house
and say to the owner of that house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
- οἰκοδεσπότῃoikodespotenoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: master
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.