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
“So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.”
“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!’”
“In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.”
“So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’””
“In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
“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.’”
“But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.”
“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.’”
““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).