οἰκέτης
household member
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G3610 appears in the Accusative case, across 1 book. 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.
Romans 1 verse
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.
At its core, οικετης (oikétēs) means “household member.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. First canonically at Matthew 24:45, it enters the text early. From the same root come οικεω, οικημα and οικητηριον. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3610 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.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 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.
- Gospels 2 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 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: Servant 2×
- American Standard Version: Servant 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Servant 2×, Servants 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: House servants 1×, House slaves 1×, Household slave 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3610 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3610 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3610 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 G3610 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.
- one who lives in the same house as another, spoken of all who are under the authority of one and the same householder
Word origin
Derived from οικεω (oikéō) (G3611) — to dwell in.
From G3611 ; a fellow resident that is menial domestic : - (household) servant.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3610 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκέται oikétai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:18 | 1 |
| οἰκέτην oikétēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 14:4 | 1 |
| οἰκέτης oikétēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:13 | 1 |
| οἰκετείας oiketeías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:45 | 1 |
| οἰκετῶν oiketō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 10:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3610, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οικετης appears 37 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 36 verses in 8 books.
- 37
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 36
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 9:25 οἰκέτης
- Exodus 5:15 οἰκέτης
- Leviticus 25:39 οἰκέτης
- Numbers 32:5 οἰκέτης
- Deuteronomy 5:15 οἰκέτης
- Joshua 5:14 οἰκέτης
- Proverbs 13:13 οἰκέτης
- Isaiah 36:9 οἰκέτης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3610) 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 9:25 οἰκέτης He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
- Genesis 27:37 οἰκέτης Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 44:16 οἰκέτης Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 44:33 οἰκέτης Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
- Genesis 50:18 οἰκέτης His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
- Exodus 5:15 οἰκέτης Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
- Exodus 5:16 οἰκέτης No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
- Exodus 12:44 οἰκέτης but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
- Exodus 21:26 οἰκέτης "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- Exodus 21:27 οἰκέτης If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Exodus 32:13 οἰκέτης Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Leviticus 25:39 οἰκέτης "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
- Leviticus 25:42 οἰκέτης For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
- Leviticus 25:55 οἰκέτης For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
- Numbers 32:5 οἰκέτης They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 οἰκέτης You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 6:21 οἰκέτης then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
- Deuteronomy 15:15 οἰκέτης You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
- Deuteronomy 15:17 οἰκέτης then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 16:12 οἰκέτης You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 οἰκέτης but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 24:20 οἰκέτης When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:22 οἰκέτης You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 34:5 οἰκέτης So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
- Joshua 5:14 οἰκέτης He said, No; but [as] prince of the host of Yahweh am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant?
- Joshua 9:8 οἰκέτης They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you?
- Joshua 9:11 οἰκέτης Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.
- Proverbs 13:13 οἰκέτης Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, But he who respects a command will be rewarded.
- Proverbs 17:2 οἰκέτης A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, And shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
- Proverbs 19:10 οἰκέτης Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Proverbs 22:7 οἰκέτης The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
- Proverbs 29:19 οἰκέτης A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
- Proverbs 29:21 οἰκέτης He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
- Proverbs 30:10 οἰκέτης "Don't slander a servant to his master, Lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
- Proverbs 30:22 οἰκέτης For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
- Isaiah 36:9 οἰκέτης How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3610) 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.
