οἰκοδεσπότης (oikodespotēs) means “householder” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: oy-kod-es-pot'-ace Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.
οἰκοδεσπότης · oikodespotēs · householder
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)
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a head of a household.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| homeowner | 2 |
| owner | 2 |
| a homeowner | 1 |
| a landowner | 1 |
| head of the house | 1 |
| landowner | 1 |
| master of the house | 1 |
| owner of the house | 1 |
| owners | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the goodman of the house | 3 |
| an householder | 2 |
| the master of the house | 2 |
| householder | 1 |
| of the householder | 1 |
| to the goodman of the house | 1 |
| unto the goodman | 1 |
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It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
Read word by wordThe 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?’
Read word by wordThen He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
Read word by word“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Read word by wordOn receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
Read word by wordListen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Read word by wordBut understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Read word by wordand whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
Read word by wordBut understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
Read word by wordAfter the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
Read word by wordThe servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
Read word by wordand say to the owner of that house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
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