opheiletēs · debtor

What it means

opheiletēs (ὀφειλέτης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “debtor”.

Someone who owes something; also someone who owes for a wrong, an offender.

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. One who owes or is bound; guilty before God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• debtors ×4
• debtor ×2
• obligated ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×1
• Romans×3
• Galatians×1

• Matthew 6:12

  and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors;

• Matthew 18:24

  And when he began to settle them, one debtor was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.

• Luke 13:4

  Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were debtors more than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

• Romans 1:14

  I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

• Romans 8:12

  So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

• Romans 15:27

  For they were pleased to do it, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to render service to them in material things.

• Galatians 5:3

  And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to do the whole law.