δουλεία
slavery
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1397 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Galatians. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
δουλεια — transliterated douleía — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “slavery.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. It first appears in Romans 8:15. Its English rendering has broadened — “bondage” classically, “slavery” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1397 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 80%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bondage 5×
- American Standard Version: Bondage 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Slavery 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Slavery 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1397 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1397 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1397 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1397 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- slavery, bondage, the condition of a slave
Word origin
Derived from δουλευω (douleúō) (G1398) — to serve.
From G1398 ; slavery (ceremonially or figuratively): - bondage.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1397 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δουλίας doulías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 8:15 | 4 |
| δουλίαν doulían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Galatians 4:24 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δουλεια appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 38 verses in 17 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 38
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 30:26 δουλεία
- Exodus 6:6 δουλεία
- Leviticus 25:39 δουλεία
- Deuteronomy 5:6 δουλεία
- Judges 6:8 δουλεία
- 1 Samuel 14:40 δουλεία
- 1 Kings 5:20 δουλεία
- 2 Chronicles 10:4 δουλεία
- Ezra 6:18 δουλεία
- Esther 7:4 δουλεία
- Psalms 103:14 δουλεία
- Proverbs 26:9 δουλεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1397) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 30:26 δουλεία Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."
- Exodus 6:6 δουλεία Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
- Exodus 13:3 δουλεία Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:14 δουλεία It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
- Exodus 20:2 δουλεία "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Leviticus 25:39 δουλεία "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
- Leviticus 26:45 δουλεία but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'"
- Deuteronomy 5:6 δουλεία "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 6:12 δουλεία then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 7:8 δουλεία but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 8:14 δουλεία then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
- Deuteronomy 13:6 δουλεία If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 13:11 δουλεία All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
- Judges 6:8 δουλεία that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
- 1 Samuel 14:40 δουλεία Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
- 1 Kings 5:20 δουλεία
- 1 Kings 9:9 δουλεία and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.
- 1 Kings 12:4 δουλεία Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
- 2 Chronicles 10:4 δουλεία Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
- 2 Chronicles 12:8 δουλεία Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
- Ezra 6:18 δουλεία They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
- Ezra 8:20 δουλεία and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.
- Ezra 9:8 δουλεία Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
- Ezra 9:9 δουλεία For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 13:5 δουλεία
- Ezra 15:18 δουλεία
- Ezra 19:17 δουλεία
- Ezra 20:33 δουλεία
- Ezra 20:38 δουλεία
- Esther 7:4 δουλεία for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
- Psalms 103:14 δουλεία For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
- Psalms 146:8 δουλεία Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- Proverbs 26:9 δουλεία Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Isaiah 14:3 δουλεία It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
- Jeremiah 41:13 δουλεία Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.
- Lamentations 1:3 δουλεία Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
- Ezekiel 29:18 δουλεία Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
- Micah 6:4 δουλεία For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1397) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
