οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespótēs

the head of a family

Greek (New Testament) · G3617

Meanings

the master of a house, a householder: Matthew 10:25, Matthew 13:27, Matthew 20:11, Matthew 24:43, Mark 14:14, Luke 12:39, Luke 13:25, Luke 14:21; ἄνθρωπος οἰ., Matthew 13:52, Matthew 20:1, Matthew 21:33; pleonast., οἰ. τ. οἰκίας, Luke 22:11 (see Bl., § 81, 4).

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 10:25 Students are to be like their teacher, and slaves are to be like their master. And since I, the master of the household, have been called the prince of demons, the members of my household will be called by even worse names!
  • Matthew 13:27 “The farmer’s workers went to him and said, ‘Sir, the field where you planted that good seed is full of weeds! Where did they come from?’
  • Matthew 13:52 Then he added, “Every teacher of religious law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings from his storeroom new gems of truth as well as old.”
  • Matthew 20:1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
  • Matthew 20:11 When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
  • Matthew 21:33 “Now listen to another story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.