Strong G3617οἰκοδεσπότης

householder

Transliteration
oikodespotēs
Pronunciation
oy-kod-es-pot'-ace
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From G3624 and G1203; the head of a family: - goodman (of the house) householder master of the house.

Detailed definition

οἰκο-δεσπότης, -ου, ὁ
(οἶκος, δεσπότης),
the master of a house, a householder: Mat.10:25 13:27 20:11 24:43, Mrk.14:14, Luk.12:39 13:25 14:21; ἄνθρωπος οἰ., Mat.13:52 20:1 21:33; pleonast., oἰ. τ. οἰκίας, Luk.22:11 (see Bl., § 81, 4).†
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In the Bible

Strong G3617 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • house7
  • householder4
  • goodman1

First verses

  1. Matthew 10:25
    It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
  2. Matthew 13:27
    So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
  3. Matthew 13:52
    Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
  4. Matthew 20:1
    For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
  5. Matthew 20:11
    And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
  6. Matthew 21:33
    Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
  7. Matthew 24:43
    But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
  8. Mark 14:14
    And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
  9. Luke 12:39
    And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
  10. Luke 13:25
    When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
  11. Luke 14:21
    So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
  12. Luke 22:11
    And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
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Detailed Greek dictionary
οἰκοδεσπότ-ης, ου, ὁ,
master or steward of a house, [NT+2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 225, NT.Matt.10.25, “PMeyer” 24.2 (6th c.AD))]: metaphorically, of God, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.22.4 (οἰκίας δ.)] was preferred by the Atticists, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954b: so οἴκων δεσπόται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.32, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 348).)]
2 native ruler, opposed to foreign emperor, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 2.11.)]
II Astrology texts, of a planet, owner of a domicile or otherwise predominant, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 97, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 9.5, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus Astr. 1.13, “PSI” 3.158.80 (3rd c.AD).)]