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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 5 times in 5 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba,[fn] Father! ”

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that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

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These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery ​— ​this is Hagar.

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For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

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and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

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