noun · neuter
ofeilēmem
Strong’sG3783
a debt, offense, sin
stem ofeilēm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 6 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.
ὀφείλημα, -τος, τό
(< ὀφείλω), [in LXX: De 24:10 (מַשָּׁאָה), I Es 3:20, I Mac 15:8*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3783 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidof-i'-lay-mah
something owed, i.e. (figuratively) a due; morally, a fault
Fromfrom (the alternate of) G3784;
King Jamesdebt.
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
that which is owed, debt, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποτίνειν ὀ. Refs 5th c.BC+; and Papyrus, Refs 3rd c.BC+; compare ὀφήλωμα.
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 or object direct | ofeilēmem | ofeilēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | ofeilēmeu | ofeilēmeiu |
| to, for dative | ofeilēme | ofeilēmei |
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
ofeilēme 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 6:12kai afiēkasar ni teim ofeilēmeim nu, hōs kai nis afiēkana toi …And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our …
ofeilēmem1×
Romans 4:4“due”… ouk logizotō kata charitan alla kata ofeilēmem;… worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.