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δοῦλος
doûlos · Greek · Strong's G1401 · 124 occurrences
The KJV renders 11 different Hebrew and Greek words as “servant”
What it means
a slave (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary; frequently, therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency)
from G1210 (δέω);
How the KJV renders it
bond, servant
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“servant”
also renders oikétēs (G3610), diákonos (G1249), therápōn (G2324), hypērétēs (G5257), paîs (G3816), doûlon (G1400), ʼĕnôwsh (H582), ʻăbad (H5649), sâkîyr (H7916), shiphchâh (H8198)
“bond”
also renders desmón (G1199), sýndesmos (G4886), ʼĕçâr (H632), môwçêr (H4147), mûwçâr (H4148), shiphchâh (H8198)
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Where it appears
124 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 7:21 · N-NSM
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
1 Corinthians 7:22 · N-NSM
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
1 Corinthians 7:23 · N-NPM
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
1 Corinthians 12:13 · N-NPM
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
1 Peter 2:16 · N-NPM
Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1 Timothy 6:1 · N-NPM
Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
2 Corinthians 4:5 N-APM2 Peter 1:1 N-NSM2 Peter 2:19 N-NPM2 Timothy 2:24 N-ASMActs 2:18 N-APMActs 4:29 N-DPMActs 16:17 N-NPMColossians 3:11 N-NSMColossians 3:22 N-NPMColossians 4:1 N-DPMColossians 4:12 N-NSMEphesians 6:5 N-NPMEphesians 6:6 N-NPMEphesians 6:8 N-NSMGalatians 1:10 N-NSMGalatians 3:28 N-NSMGalatians 4:1 N-GSMGalatians 4:7 N-NSMJames 1:1 N-NSMJohn 4:51 N-NPMJohn 8:34 N-NSMJohn 8:35 N-NSMJohn 13:16 N-NSMJohn 15:15 N-APMJohn 15:20 N-NSMJohn 18:10 N-ASMJohn 18:18 N-NPMJohn 18:26 N-GPMJude 1:1 N-NSMLuke 2:29 N-ASMLuke 7:2 N-NSMLuke 7:3 N-ASMLuke 7:8 N-DSMLuke 7:10 N-ASMLuke 12:37 N-NPMLuke 12:43 N-NSMLuke 12:45 N-NSMLuke 12:46 N-GSMLuke 12:47 N-NSMLuke 14:17 N-ASMLuke 14:21 N-DSMLuke 14:22 N-NSMLuke 14:23 N-ASMLuke 15:22 N-APMLuke 17:7 N-ASMLuke 17:9 N-DSMLuke 17:10 N-NPMLuke 19:13 N-APMLuke 19:15 N-APMLuke 19:17 N-VSMLuke 19:22 N-VSMLuke 20:10 N-ASMLuke 20:11 N-ASMLuke 22:50 N-ASM
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