οἰκέτις
female servant, maidservant
Where this word appears
Every passage where οἰκέτις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 21:7 οἰκέτις And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
- Leviticus 19:20 οἰκέτις And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
- Proverbs 30:23 οἰκέτις or if a maidservant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.
About this word
About this word
οἰκέτις (oikétis), “female servant, maidservant,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
