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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 εἶπεν. ἐπικατάρατοσ Χαναάν. παῖσ οἰκέτησ ἔσται τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:25)
  • καὶ εἶπεν. εὐλογητὸσ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τοῦ Σήμ, καὶ ἔσται Χαναὰν παῖσ οἰκέτησ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:26)
  • νῦν οὖν παραμενῶ σοι παῖσ ἀντὶ τοῦ παιδίου, οἰκέτησ τοῦ κυρίου. τὸ δὲ παιδίον ἀναβήτω μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:33)
  • καὶ μνησθήσῃ ὅτι οἰκέτησ ἦσθα ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ ἐξήγαγέ σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου ἐκεῖθεν ἐν χειρὶ κραταιᾷ καὶ ἐν βραχίονι ὑψηλῷ, διὰ τοῦτο συνέταξέ σοι Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου, ὥστε φυλάσσεσθαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῶν σαββάτων καὶ ἁγιάζειν αὐτήν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 5:15)
  • καὶ μνησθήσῃ ὅτι οἰκέτησ ἦσθα ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἐλυτρώσατό σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου ἐκεῖθεν. διὰ τοῦτο ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι ποιεῖν τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:15)

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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