οἰκογενής
house-born slave
Where this word appears
Every passage where οἰκογενής appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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.
- Genesis 14:14 οἰκογενής And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.
- Genesis 15:2 οἰκογενής And Abram said, Master and Lord, what will you give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is my heir.
- Genesis 15:3 οἰκογενής And Abram said, I am grieved since you have given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.
- Genesis 17:12 οἰκογενής And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of your seed.
- Genesis 17:13 οἰκογενής He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:23 οἰκογενής And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.
- Genesis 17:27 οἰκογενής and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.
- Leviticus 22:11 οἰκογενής But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread.
- Ecclesiastes 2:7 οἰκογενής I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 2:14 οἰκογενής Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?
About this word
About this word
οἰκογενής (oikogenḗs), “house-born slave,” 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 10 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 →
