οἰκοδεσπότης
householder
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (42%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (33%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 2 times (17%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3617 appears — 12 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Matthew 7 verses
- Matthew 10:25 οἰκοδεσπότην n acc sg masc It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
- Matthew 13:27 οἰκοδεσπότου n gen sg masc The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
- Matthew 13:52 οἰκοδεσπότῃ n dat sg masc He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
- Matthew 20:1 οἰκοδεσπότῃ n dat sg masc "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- Matthew 20:11 οἰκοδεσπότου n gen sg masc When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
- Matthew 21:33 οἰκοδεσπότης n nom sg masc "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Matthew 24:43 οἰκοδεσπότης n nom sg masc But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 12:39 οἰκοδεσπότης n nom sg masc But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
- Luke 13:25 οἰκοδεσπότης n nom sg masc When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
- Luke 14:21 οἰκοδεσπότης n nom sg masc "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
- Luke 22:11 οἰκοδεσπότῃ n dat sg masc Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
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.
The Greek noun οικοδεσποτης centers on the idea of “householder.” Matthew dominates its distribution — 7 of 12 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 10:25. Sharing its root, it stands alongside οικος, οικειος and οικεω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3617 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 33%
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: Goodman of the house 4×, Master of the house 3×, Householder 2×
- American Standard Version: Master of the house 4×, Householder 2×, Was a householder 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Homeowner 3×, Landowner 2×, Owner 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Master of the house 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3617 across 12 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3617 across 10 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 G3617 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3617 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- master of the house, householder
Word origin
Derived from οικος (oîkos) (G3624) — house.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3617 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκοδεσπότης oikodespótēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 21:33 | 5 |
| οἰκοδεσπότῃ oikodespótē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:52 | 4 |
| οἰκοδεσπότου oikodespótou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:27 | 2 |
| οἰκοδεσπότην oikodespótēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3617, 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
- οικειος oikeîos G3609 domestic
- οικεω oikéō G3611 to dwell in
- οικια oikía G3614 house
- οικοδομη oikodomḗ G3619 building
- οικονομος oikonómos G3623 steward
- οικουρος oikourós G3626 domestic
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
