Lexicon oiketes: a household servant Original Word: οἰκέτης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: oiketes Phonetic Spelling: (oy-ket'-ace) Short Definition: a household servant Definition: a household servant. HELPS word-Studies 3610 oikétēs (from 3624 /oíkos, "house") – properly, a household-servant working for a family, implying it is done with affection and devotion. Thayer's STRONGS NT 3610: οἰκέτηςοἰκέτης, οἰκέτου, ὁ ( οἰκέω), from ( Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, Latin domesticus, i. e. one who lives in the same house with another, spoken of all who are under the authority of one and the same householder, Sir. 4:30 Sir. 6:11, especially a servant, domestic; so in Luke 16:13; Acts 10:7; Romans 14:4; 1 Peter 2:18; the Sept. for עֶבֶד. See more fully on the word, Meyer on Romans, the passage cited (where he remarks that οἰκέτης is a more restricted term than δοῦλος, designating a house-servant, one holding closer relations to the family than other slaves; cf. διάκονος at the end, Schmidt, chapter 162.)
Strong's household servant. From oikeo; a fellow resident, i.e. Menial domestic -- (household) servant. see GREEK oikeo |
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