Oikodespotes means “householder” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3617 — kalah (“completion”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3617 οἰκοδεσπότης (oikodespotes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. oikodespotes (oy-kod-es-pot'-ace) n. 1. the head of a family [from G3624 and G1203] It has 13 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include goodman, householder, and house. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
oikodespotes (oy-kod-es-pot'-ace) n. 1. the head of a family [from G3624 and G1203] KJV: goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house Root(s): G3624, G1203
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3617. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
householder
Usage: οἰκο-δεσπότης, -ου, ὁ (οἶκος, δεσπότης), the master of a house, a householder: Mat.10:25 13:27 20:11 24:43, Mrk.14:14, Luk.12:39 13:25 14:21; ἄνθρωπος οἰ., Mat.13:52 20:1 21:33; pleonast., oἰ. τ. οἰκίας, Luk.22:11 (see Bl., § 81, 4).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render oikodespotes, 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 New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G3617 (οἰκοδεσπότης) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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12 indexed usages in New Testament.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3617.
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3617, grouped by book.
Oikodespotes (Strong's G3617) is a Greek word most simply glossed "householder". oikodespotes (oy-kod-es-pot'-ace) n. 1. the head of a family [from G3624 and G1203]
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G3617 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3617 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as goodman, householder, and house. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3617, with linked reader references where each row is available.