Lexicon oikodespotés: the master of a house Original Word: οἰκοδεσπότης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: oikodespotés Phonetic Spelling: (oy-kod-es-pot'-ace) Short Definition: a head of a household Definition: a head of a household. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom oikos and despotésDefinitionthe master of a house NASB Translationhead of a household (1), head of the house (4), head of the household (1), landowner (4), owner (1), owner of the house (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3617: οἰκοδεσπότηςοἰκοδεσπότης, 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.)
Strong's householder, master of the house. From oikos and despotes; the head of a family -- goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house. see GREEK oikos see GREEK despotes |
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