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οἰκέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκέτης οἰκέτου

Structure: οἰκετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: oi)ke/w

Sense

  1. a house-slave, menial

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκέτης οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται
Genitive οἰκέτου οἰκέταιν οἰκετῶν
Dative οἰκέτῃ οἰκέταιν οἰκέταις
Accusative οἰκέτην οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέτᾱς
Vocative οἰκέτα οἰκέτᾱ οἰκέται

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. ἐγὼ ἀρχιστράτηγοσ δυνάμεωσ Κυρίου νυνὶ παραγέγονα. καὶ Ἰησοῦσ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. δέσποτα, τί προστάσσεισ τῷ σῷ οἰκέτῃ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 5:14)
  • α υἱῷ δολίῳ οὐδὲν ἔσται ἀγαθόν, οἰκέτῃ δὲ σοφῷ εὔοδοι ἔσονται πράξεισ, καὶ κατευθυνθήσεται ἡ ὁδὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 13:14)
  • οἰκέτῃ σοφῷ ἐλεύθεροι λειτουργήσουσι, καὶ ἀνὴρ ἐπιστήμων οὐ γογγύσει. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 10:24)
  • Χορτάσματα καὶ ράβδοσ καὶ φορτία ὄνῳ, ἄρτοσ καὶ παιδεία καὶ ἔργον οἰκέτῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:25)
  • ζυγὸσ καὶ ἱμὰσ κάμψουσι τράχηλον, καὶ οἰκέτῃ κακούργῳ στρέβλαι καὶ βάσανοι. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:27)

Synonyms

  1. a house-slave

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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