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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 servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign[fn] those of his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:27 - And the servants[fn] of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:52

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:52 - And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:1 - “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:11 - And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 - “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:43 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:14 - and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:39 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he[fn] would not have left his house to be broken into.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:25 - When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:21 - So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:11 - and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’
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