Householder

Usually translated “master of the house”, “master of a house” and “master”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• master of the house 8
• a master of a house 3
• master 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Matthew 7
• Luke 4
• Mark 1

3 books in all.

• Matthew 13:27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
• Matthew 13:52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
• Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
• Matthew 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
• Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
• Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “householder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.