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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

  • εἰσελθόντεσ δὲ οἱ γραμματεῖσ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ κατεβόησαν πρὸσ Φαραὼ λέγοντεσ. ἱνατί σὺ οὕτωσ ποιεῖσ τοῖσ σοῖσ οἰκέταισ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 5:15)
  • ἄχυρον οὐ δίδοται τοῖσ οἰκέταισ σου, καὶ τὴν πλίνθον ἡμῖν λέγουσι ποιεῖν, καὶ ἰδοὺ οἱ παῖδέσ σου μεμαστίγωνται. ἀδικήσεισ οὖν τὸν λαόν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 5:16)
  • καὶ ἔλεγον. εἰ εὕρομεν χάριν ἐνώπιόν σου, δοθήτω ἡ γῆ αὕτη τοῖσ οἰκέταισ σου ἐν κατασχέσει, καὶ μὴ διαβιβάσῃσ ἡμᾶσ τὸν Ἰορδάνην. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 32:5)
  • ἐκέλευσε δὲ τοῖσ οἰκέταισ χῶσαι τὸν τάφον. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 8:18)
  • μὴ ἴσθι ὡσ λέων ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ σου καὶ φαντασιοκοπῶν ἐν τοῖσ οἰκέταισ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 4:30)

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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