noun · feminine
ofeilas
Strong’sG3782
a debt, duty
stem ofeil-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† ὀφειλή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ὀφείλω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3782 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidof-i-lay'
indebtedness, i.e. (concretely) a sum owed; figuratively, obligation, i.e. (conjugal) duty
Fromfrom G3784;
King Jamesdebt, due.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
debt, NT+5th c.BC+
2 one's due, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ofeilas | ofeilais |
| object accusative | ofeilan2×ὀφειλὴν | ofeilain1×ὀφειλάς |
| direct address vocative | ofeilar | ofeilair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ofeilau | ofeilaiu |
| to, for dative | ofeila | ofeilai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ofeila is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
ofeilan“debt”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 18:32… legatō auto; Doulor ponēror, pantan tan ofeilan ekeinan afiēkama si, epei parakalasa min;… wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.
1 Corinthians 7:3ta gunaika tos andros tan ofeilan apodōatōr, homoiōs de kai tas gunaikas …The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the …
ofeilain“due”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 13:7apodōavar pantoi tain ofeilain, to ton foron ton foron, to …… him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due …