oikodespotēs · master of the house

What it means

oikodespotēs (οἰκοδεσπότης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “master of the house”.

Head of a household.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The master of the household, who rules it and looks after its goods.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• master of the house ×8
• master of a house ×3
• master ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×1
• Luke×4

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his household!

• Matthew 13:27

  And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where does it get darnel?’

• Matthew 13:52

  And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure new things and old.”

• Matthew 20:1

  For the kingdom of heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:11

  And when they received it, they were grumbling against the master of the house,

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Matthew 24:43

  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

• Mark 14:14

  and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

• Luke 12:39

  But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

• Luke 13:25

  Once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from.’

• Luke 14:21

  And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

• Luke 22:11

  And you will say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’