noun · masculine
ofeiletos
Strong’sG3781
a debtor, sinner
stem ofeilet-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
* ὀφειλέτης, -ου, ὁ
(< ὀφείλω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3781 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidof-i-let'-ace
an ower, i.e. person indebted; figuratively, a delinquent; morally, a transgressor (against God)
Fromfrom G3784;
King Jamesdebtor, which owed, sinner.
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
debtor, τινι Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀ. εἰμί with infinitive, I am under bond to.., NT+5th c.BC+: —feminine ὀφειλ-έτις, ιδος, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | ofeiletos3×ὀφειλέτης | ofeiletois3×ὀφειλέται |
| object accusative | ofeileton | ofeiletoin |
| direct address vocative | ofeiletor | ofeiletoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ofeiletou | ofeiletoiu |
| to, for dative | ofeileto | ofeiletoi1×ὀφειλέταις |
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
ofeileto 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
ofeiletos“under obligation”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 18:24“who owed”… de autou sunairarō prosferita auto henos ofeiletos murioi talanteiu.As he began the settlements, a debtor owing ten thousand talents was brought to him.
Romans 1:14“under obligation”… kai barbaroi, sofoi tē kai anoētoi ofeiletos amō;I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
Galatians 5:3“under obligation”… de palin panto anthrōpo peritemorōnto hoti ofeiletos atō holon ton nomon poiara.Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
ofeiletois“sinners”subjectnominative plural3×
Luke 13:4“sinners”… kai apoktenata autoin, dokavō hoti autois ofeiletois genela para pantoin toin anthrōpoin toin …… who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living …
Romans 8:12“debtors”Ara oun, adelfoir, ofeiletois anō, ouk ta sarka teu kata …Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
Romans 15:27“indebted”eudokala gar, kai ofeiletois alō autoiu; ei gar tei pneumatikei …They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to …
ofeiletoi“debtors”to, fordative plural1×
Matthew 6:12… nu, hōs kai nis afiēkana toi ofeiletoi nu;… as we also have forgiven our debtors.