Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
slavery
Usage: δουλεία (T, -λία), -ας, ἡ (δουλεύω), [in LXX, as Exo.13:3, for עֶבֶד and cognates ;] slavery, bondage: Rom.8:15, 21 Gal.4:24 5:1, Heb.2:15.† (AS)
Douleia means “bondage” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1397 — geber (“man”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1397 δουλεία (douleia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. douleia (dou-lei'-ah) n. 1. slavery (ceremonially or figuratively) [from G1398] It has 46 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include bondage. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
douleia (dou-lei'-ah) n. 1. slavery (ceremonially or figuratively) [from G1398] KJV: bondage Root(s): G1398
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slavery
Usage: δουλεία (T, -λία), -ας, ἡ (δουλεύω), [in LXX, as Exo.13:3, for עֶבֶד and cognates ;] slavery, bondage: Rom.8:15, 21 Gal.4:24 5:1, Heb.2:15.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render douleia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1397 (δουλεία) appears 44 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
37 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Restore my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart, for thou knowest the service wherewith I have served thee.
Go, speak to the children of Israel, saying, I am the Lord; and I will lead you forth from the tyranny of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from bondage, and I will ransom you with a high arm, and great judgment.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.
For our servitude shall not be directed to favor; but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonor.
and to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And barrenness has not been given to the woman, But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1397.
Restore my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart, for thou knowest the service wherewith I have served thee.
Go, speak to the children of Israel, saying, I am the Lord; and I will lead you forth from the tyranny of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from bondage, and I will ransom you with a high arm, and great judgment.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
And if thy son should ask thee hereafter, saying, What is this? then thou shalt say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave.
And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord.
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
thou shouldest be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.
And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw thee away from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I am he that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I brought you up out of the house of your bondage.
And he said to all the men of Israel, Ye shall be under subjection, and I and Jonathan my son will be under subjection: and the people said to Saul, Do that which is good in thy sight.
men cut wood for me out of Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, and I will give thee the wages of thy service, according to all that thou shalt say, because thou knowest that we have no one skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians.
but do thou now lighten somewhat of the hard service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now then abate somewhat of thy father’s grievous rule, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
Nevertheless they shall be servants, and know my service, and the service of the kings of the earth.
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer is not worthy of the king’s palace.
He makes grass to grow for the cattle, And green herb for the service of men, To bring bread out of the earth;
Who covers the heaven with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, And green herb for the service of men;
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.
Thus saith the Lord; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day wherein I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, And by reason of the abundance of her servitude: She dwells among the nations, She has not found rest: All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against it.
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.
For our servitude shall not be directed to favor; but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonor.
and to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude.
And barrenness has not been given to the woman, But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1397, grouped by book.
Douleia (Strong's G1397) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bondage". douleia (dou-lei'-ah) n. 1. slavery (ceremonially or figuratively) [from G1398]
This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's G1397 across 25 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1397 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bondage. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 37 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1397, with linked reader references where each row is available.