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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

  • καὶ πάντα οἰκέτην ἢ ἀργυρώνητον περιτεμεῖσ αὐτόν, καὶ τότε φάγεται ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:44)
  • μὴ παραδῷσ οἰκέτην εἰσ χεῖρασ δεσπότου, μήποτε καταράσηταί σε καὶ ἀφανισθῇσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:36)
  • μὴ κακώσῃσ οἰκέτην ἐργαζόμενον ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, μηδὲ μίσθιον διδόντα ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 7:20)
  • οἰκέτην συνετὸν ἀγαπάτω σου ἡ ψυχή, μὴ στερήσῃσ αὐτὸν ἐλευθερίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 7:21)
  • καὶ μέντοι καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιόν τινα ἰδὼν τὸν αὑτοῦ οἰκέτην μαστιγοῦντα, Παῦσαι, ἔφη, ὁμότιμον σαυτοῦ τὸν δοῦλον ἀποφαίνων. (Lucian, (no name) 46:1)

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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