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Lexicon :: Strong's G1397 - douleia

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δουλεία
Transliteration
douleia (Key)
Pronunciation
doo-li'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:261,182

Strong’s Definitions

δουλεία douleía, doo-li'-ah; from G1398; slavery (ceremonially or figuratively):—bondage.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G1397 in the following manner: bondage (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G1397 in the following manner: bondage (5x).

  1. slavery, bondage, the condition of a slave

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δουλεία douleía, doo-li'-ah; from G1398; slavery (ceremonially or figuratively):—bondage.
STRONGS G1397:
δουλεία (Tdf. -ια, [see Ι, ι]), -ας, ἡ, (δουλεύω); slavery, bondage, the condition of a slave: τῆς φθορᾶς, the bondage which consists in decay [Winers Grammar, § 59, 8 a., cf. Buttmann, 78 (68)], equivalent to the law, the necessity, of perishing, Romans 8:21; used of the slavish sense of fear, devoid alike of buoyancy of spirit and of trust in God, such as is produced by the thought of death, Hebrews 2:15, as well as by the Mosaic law in its votaries, Romans 8:15 (πνεῦμα δουλείας); the Mosaic system is said to cause δουλεία on account of the grievous burdens its precepts impose upon its adherents: Galatians 4:24; Galatians 5:1. [From Pindar down.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Romans
8:15; 8:21
Galatians
4:24; 5:1
Hebrews
2:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1397 matches the Greek δουλεία (douleia),
which occurs 41 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6 - Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 - “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:6 - “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:14 - then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil[fn] from your midst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:40 - Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:4 - “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:8 - Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:18 - And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:20 - besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:8 - But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold[fn] within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection[fn] in Judea and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:5 - And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now what was prepared at my expense[fn] for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:17 - They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[fn] But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:32 - “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel[fn] for the service of the house of our God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - You cause the grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth food from the earth

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 - He covers the heavens with clouds;
he prepares rain for the earth;
he makes grass grow on the hills.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:9 - Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard
is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3 - When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[fn]
and hard servitude;
she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 - For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.
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