noun · feminine
oiketeias
Strong’sG2322
household servants
stem oiketei-once in the New Testament1 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.
*† οἰκετεία, -ας, ἡ
(< οἰκέτης),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2322 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidther-ap-i'-ah
attendance (specially, medical, i.e. cure); figuratively and collectively, domestics
Fromfrom G2323;
King Jameshealing, household.
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
Ionic dialect θερᾰπ-ηΐη (θερᾰπ-είη Refs 5th c.BC+, ἡ, service, attendance:
I of persons, θ. τῶν θεῶν service paid to the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀγυιάτιδες θ. worship of Apollo Agyieus, Refs 5th c.BC+; of parents, γονέων θεραπείας καὶ τιμάς Refs 5th c.BC+; of children, nurture, care, μικροὺς παῖδας θεραπείας δεομένους Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. σώματος, ψυχῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 service done to gain favour, paying court, θ. τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ προεστώτων Refs 5th c.BC+
II medical or surgical treatment or cure, χειρός, ποδός, Hp.[same place]; αἱ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θ. αἱ διὰ καύσεων γιγνόμεναι cures by cautery, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων θ. treatment secundum artem, Refs 5th c.BC+; healing, θεραπείας ἐπιτυχών Refs: in plural, cures, ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ -είας Refs
III of animals, care, tendance, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 of plants, cultivation, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 maintenance or repairs of temples, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.4 preparation of fat for medical use, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV in collective sense, body of attendants, retinue, LXX+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 | oiketeias | oiketeiais |
| object accusative | oiketeian | oiketeiain |
| direct address vocative | oiketeiar | oiketeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | oiketeiau1×οἰκετείας | oiketeiaiu |
| to, for dative | oiketeia | oiketeiai |
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
oiketeia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
oiketeiau“household”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 24:45… hon katastēata tos kurios epi tau oiketeiau autou teu dōara autoi tan trofēan …… has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food …