Word Summary
oiketēs: a household (of servants)
Original Word: οἰκέτηςTransliteration: oiketēs
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-ket'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a household (of servants)
Meaning: a household (of servants)
Strong's Concordance
household servant.
From oikeo; a fellow resident, i.e. Menial domestic -- (household) servant.
see GREEK oikeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3610: οἰκέτηςοἰκέτης,
οἰκέτου,
ὁ (
οἰκέω), from (
Aeschylus and)
Herodotus down, Latin
domesticus, i. e. one who lives in the same house with another, spoken of all who are under the authority of one and the same householder, Sir. 4:30 Sir. 6:11, especially
a servant, domestic; so in
Luke 16:13;
Acts 10:7;
Romans 14:4;
1 Peter 2:18; the
Sept. for
עֶבֶד. See more fully on the word, Meyer on Romans, the passage cited (where he remarks that
οἰκέτης is a more restricted term than
δοῦλος, designating a
house-servant, one holding closer relations to the family than other slaves; cf.
διάκονος at the end,
Schmidt, chapter 162.)