Slavery
δουλείαStrong’s G1397douleia
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Douleia is the Greek word usually translated “bondage” and “slavery”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
Meaning
Usually translated “bondage” and “slavery”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- of bondage 1
- bondage 1
- slavery 1
- of slavery 1
- to slavery 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 2
- Galatians 2
- Hebrews 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 8:21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
- Galatians 4:24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- Hebrews 2:15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Greek dictionary
δουλεία douleia · slavery
δουλεία (T, -λία), -ας, ἡ (δουλεύω), [in LXX, as Exo.13:3, for עֶבֶד and cognates ;] slavery, bondage: Rom.8:15, 21 Gal.4:24 5:1, Heb.2:15.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slavery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLA'VERY, noun
[See Slave.]
- Bondage; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. slavery is the obligation to labor for the benefit of the master, without the contract of consent of the servant. slavery may proceed from crimes, from captivity or from debt. slavery is also voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when a person sells or yields his own person to the absolute command of another; involuntary, when he is placed under the absolute power of another without his own consent. slavery no longer exists in Great Britain, not in the northern states of America.
- The offices of a slave; drudgery.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.