Strong's Greek · G1401
G1401 doûlos
δοῦλος
doo'-los
slave
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doûlos appears 126 times in Scripture, including Matthew 8:9 and Romans 6:17. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a slave (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary; frequently, therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency)
In the King James Version
bond(-man), servant
Derivation
from G1210 (δέω);
Appears 126 times in Scripture
“Then the master summoned him and said, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.”
“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’”
“For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.””
“Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.”
“His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.”
“Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’”
“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’”
“When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.”
“and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—”
“But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
