Strong's Concordance
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 Greek Lexicon
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.)
