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Lexicon :: Strong's G3617 - oikodespotēs

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οἰκοδεσπότης
Transliteration
oikodespotēs (Key)
Pronunciation
oy-kod-es-pot'-ace
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:49,145

Strong’s Definitions

οἰκοδεσπότης oikodespótēs, oy-kod-es-pot'-ace; from G3624 and G1203; the head of a family:—goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G3617 in the following manner: householder (4x), goodman of the house (4x), master of the house (3x), goodman (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G3617 in the following manner: householder (4x), goodman of the house (4x), master of the house (3x), goodman (1x).

  1. master of the house, householder

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οἰκοδεσπότης oikodespótēs, oy-kod-es-pot'-ace; from G3624 and G1203; the head of a family:—goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house.
STRONGS G3617:
οἰκοδεσπότης, οἰκοδεσπότου, ὁ (οἶκος, δεσπότης), master of a house, householder: Matthew 10:25; Matthew 13:27; Matthew 20:11; Matthew 24:43; Mark 14:14; Luke 12:39; Luke 13:25; Luke 14:21; ἄνθρωπος οἰκοδεσπότης (see ἄνθρωπος, 4 a.), Matthew 13:52; Matthew 20:1; Matthew 21:33; οἰκοδεσπότης τῆς οἰκίας, Luke 22:11, on this pleonasm cf. Bornemann, Schol. at the passage; Winers Grammar, § 65, 2. (Alexis, a comic poet of the IV. century B.C. quoted in Pollux 10, 4, 21; Josephus, contra Apion 2, 11, 3; Plutarch, quaest. Rom. 30; Ignatius ad Eph. 6 [ET]. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 313 shows that the earlier Greeks said οἴκου or οἰκίας δεσπότης.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
10:25; 13:27; 13:52; 20:1; 20:11; 21:33; 24:43
Mark
14:14
Luke
12:39; 13:25; 14:21; 22:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3617 matches the Greek οἰκοδεσπότης (oikodespotēs),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - “It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the bond-servant like his master. If they have called the head of the house [fn]Beelzebul (Satan), how much more [will they speak evil of] the members of his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:27 - “The servants of the owner came to him and said, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have weeds in it?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:52

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:52 - He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household, who brings out of his [fn]treasure things that are new and fresh and things that are old and familiar.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:1 -

“For the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out in the morning at dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:11 - “When they received it, they protested and grumbled at the owner of the estate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 -

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to tenant farmers and went on a journey [to another country].

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:43 - “But understand this: If the head of the house had known what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - and say to the [fn]owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:39 -

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time the thief was coming, he [would have been awake and alert, and] would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:25 - “Once the head of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door [again and again], saying, ‘Lord, open to us!’ then He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you are from [for you are not of My household].’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:21 - “So the servant came back and reported this to his master. Then [his master,] the head of the household, became angry [at the rejections of his invitation] and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and the lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the disabled and the blind and the lame.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11 - “And say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’
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