noun · masculine
oiketos
Strong’sG3610
a household servant
stem oiket-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
οἰκέτης, -ου, ὁ
(< οἰκέω), [in LXX for עֶבֶד;]
SYN.: v.s. διάκονος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3610 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoy-ket'-ace
a fellow resident, i.e. menial domestic
Fromfrom G3611;
King James(household) servant.
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
(οἶκος) household slave, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 οἱ οἰκέται also, ={οἰκετεία}, household, Refs 5th c.BC+; δοῦλος μεῖζον οἰκέτου φρονῶν Refs 4th c.BC+
II as epithet of Apollo, ἱερέως.. Καρνείου Βοικέτα [Β = ϝ] Refs
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 | oiketos1×οἰκέτης | oiketois |
| object accusative | oiketon1×οἰκέτην | oiketoin |
| direct address vocative | oiketor | oiketoir1×οἰκέται |
| of, belonging to genitive | oiketou | oiketoiu1×οἰκετῶν |
| to, for dative | oiketo | oiketoi |
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
oiketo 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
oiketos“servant”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 16:13oudenos oiketos dunotō duo kurioi douleuarō; ē gar …No servant can serve two masters. Either he …
oiketon“servant”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 14:4sis tinos asō tos krinarōntos allotrion oiketon? to idio kurio stēkatō ē piptatō; …… are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands …
oiketoir“servants”direct addressvocative plural1×
1 Peter 2:18Tois oiketoir hupotassorōntois en panto fobo toi despotoi, …Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with …
oiketoiu“servants”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 10:7… tos lalarōntos auto, fōnarantos duo toiu oiketoiu kai stratiōton eusebon toiu proskarterarōntoiu auto… gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among …