Strong's Greek · G3784

ὀφείλω

opheílō

behove, be bound, (be) debt(-or), (be) due(-ty), be guilty (indebted), (must) need(-s), ought, owe, should

Definition

to owe (pecuniarily); figuratively, to be under obligation (ought, must, should); morally, to fail in duty

Derivation

probably from the base of G3786 (ὄφελος) (through the idea of accruing);

Appears 35 times in Scripture

John 13:14

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

Matthew 18:28

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!’

Matthew 18:34

In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

Matthew 18:30

But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

Matthew 23:18

And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’

Luke 7:41

“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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