Quick Definition
δουλαγωγέω v. I enslave
Strong's Definition
from a presumed compound of 1401 and 71; to be a slave-driver, i.e. to enslave (figuratively, subdue)
KJV Usage: bring into subjection
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | δουλόω + ἄγω
35.30 · Help, Care For · Serve
to make ready for service to prepare or make something available for service
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δουλαγωγέω [ Rec." -ayay-], τῶ; (δουλάγωγος, ef. παιδάyoyos) ; to lead away into slavery, claim as one’s slave, (Diod. Sic. 12, 24, and occasionally in other later writ.) ; to make a slave and to treat as a slave i. 6. with severity, to subject to stern and rigid discipline: 1 Co. ix. 27. Cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexicorum N. T. p. 472 sq.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δουλαγωγέω doulagōgeō 1x
pr. to bring into slavery; to treat as a slave; to discipline into subjection, 1 Cor. 9:27*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† δουλαγωγέω, -ῶ
(< δοῦλος, ἄγω),
to make a slave, bring into bondage: I Co 9:27 (Cremer, 703).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δουλαγωγέω. For δ. used in a moral sense, as in 1 Cor 9*7, we may cite Epict. iii. 24. 76 τί λέγεις πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν SovAaywyotvTa oe; ‘* what sayest thou to this man who is treating thee as a slave?’’ Cf. 24. iv. 7. 17 (Sharp Zpictetus and the NT, p- 71). For the subst. used literally cf. P Oxy I. 3810 (A.D. 49-50) (= Selections, p. 53) Tod Σύρ[ου] ἐπικεχειρηκότος ἀποσπάσαι εἰς SovAaywyla[y] Tov ἀφήλικά μου υἱὸν ᾿Απίωνα, ““ϑγιιι5 having endeavoured to carry off into slavery my young son Apion,”’ 2d. IX. 120617 (A.D. 335) εἰς δουλαγωγείαν ἄγειν, and the dialect inscription, apparently of Roman times, Sy// 8411} εἰ δέ τις ἐπιλανβάνοιτο αὐτῶν ἢ καταδουλίζοιτο, & τε γενηθῖσα Sovdaywyla αὐτῶν ἄκυρος καὶ ἀρεμένα (1. ἀρμένα -- ἠρμένη) ἔστω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
δουλαγωγέω (doulagōgeō) — to enslave. δουλᾰγωγ-έω, make a slave, treat as such, uncertain in [Refs 1st c.BC+]
2. metaphorically of pleasure, etc., δ. τοὺς βίους [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸ σῶμα bring it into subjection, [NT]