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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.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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, and let me go; for you yourself know my service which I have [fn]rendered you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6 - “Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their slavery. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 -

And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of [fn]slavery; for by a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “And it will be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt, from the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 -

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 -

‘If a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:6 -

‘I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - then beware, lest you forget Yahweh who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but because Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of [fn]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:14 - and your heart becomes [fn]lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of [fn]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 [fn]counseled [fn]rebellion against Yahweh your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of [fn]slavery, to drive you from the way in which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - “So you shall stone him [fn]to death because he has sought to drive you from Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - that Yahweh sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from 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 in your eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, 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 - “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore Yahweh has brought all this calamity on them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - “Your father made our yoke harsh; but you, now, lighten the harsh service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put 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 harsh; but now, lighten the harsh service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:8 - “But they will become his slaves so that they may know the difference between My slavery and the slavery of the kingdoms of the countries.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:18 - Then they appointed the priests to their sections and the Levites in their divisions for the service of God [fn]in 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 - and 220 of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:8 - “But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give 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 in our slavery our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us before the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:5 - Moreover, next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not [fn]support the service of their masters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not require the governor’s food allowance, because the slavery was heavy on this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:17 -

“They refused to listen,

And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You did among them;

So they became stiff-necked and gave themselves a chief to return to their slavery [fn]in Egypt.

But You are a God of lavish forgiveness,

Gracious and compassionate,

Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;

And You did not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:32 -

We also [fn]set ourselves under the commandments to give yearly one-third of a [fn]shekel for the service of the house of our God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - We will also bring the first of our [fn]dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the towns where we serve.

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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 caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the [fn]adversity would not be worth the [fn]annoyance to the king.”

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[fn]He causes the grass to grow for the [fn]cattle,

And vegetation for man’s [fn]cultivation,

To bring forth [fn]food from the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 -

He is the One who covers the heavens with clouds,

The One who provides rain for the earth,

The One who makes grass to sprout on the mountains,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:9 -

Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a drunkard,

So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:3 -

And it will be in the day when Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh slavery in which you have been enslaved,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘I cut a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 -

Gimel

Judah has gone into exile because of affliction

And because of great slavery;

She sits among the nations,

But she has found no rest;

All her pursuers have overtaken her

In the midst of [fn]distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his military force [fn]labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his military force had no wages from Tyre for the [fn]labor that he had [fn]labored against it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 -

“Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt

And ransomed you from the house of slavery,

And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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