Slave
οἰκέτηςStrong’s G3610oiketēs
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Oiketēs is the Greek word usually translated “servant” and “servants”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.”
Meaning
Usually translated “servant” and “servants”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- servant 3
- servants 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 1
- Acts 1
- Romans 1
- Philemon 1
- 1 Peter 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- Acts 10:7And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
- Romans 14:4Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
- 1 Peter 2:18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Greek dictionary
οἰκέτης oiketēs · slave
οἰκέτης, -ου, ὁ (οἰκέω), [in LXX for עֶבֶד ;] a house-servant: Luk.16:13, Rom.14:4; pl., Act.10:7, 1Pe.2:18 (In Plat., Hdt., Sir.4:30 6:11, the pl. includes all the inmates of the house, the familia, οἰκετεία.)† SYN.. see: διάκονος (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLAVE, noun
- A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no will of his own, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
- One who has lost the poser of resistance; or one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as a slave to passion, to lust, to ambition.
- A mean person; one in the lowest state of life.
- A drudge; one who labors like a slave
All definitions and other forms of “slave”
SLAVE, verb intransitive
To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave
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.