Quick Definition
οἰκοδεσπότης, ου, ὁ n.m. a head of a household
Strong's Definition
from 3624 and 1203; the head of a family
KJV Usage: goodman (of the house), householder, master of the house
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | οἰκέω + δέω
57.14 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Have, Possess, Property, Owner
master of the household one who owns and manages a household, including family, servants, and slaves
MAT 10:25 · MAT 13:27 · MAT 13:52 · MAT 20:1 · MAT 20:11 · MAT 21:33 · MAT 24:43 · MRK 14:14 · LUK 12:39 · LUK 13:25 · LUK 14:21 · LUK 22:11
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
οἰκο-δεσπότης, -ov, 6, (οἶκος, δεσπότης, master of a house, householder: Mt. x. 25; xiii. 27; xx. 11; xxiv.43; Mk. xiv. 14; Lk. xii. 39; xiii. 25; xiv. 21; ἄνθρωπος οἰκοδ. (see ἄνθρωπος, 4 a.), Mt. xiii. 52; χχ. 1; xxi. 33; οἰκοδεσπ. τῆς οἰκίας, Lk. xxii. 11, 0n this pleonasm ef. Bornemann, Schol. ad loce.; W. § 65, 2. (Alexis, a comic poet of the IV. cent. B. C. ap. Poll. 10, 4, 21; Joseph. 6. Ap. 2,11, 3; Plut. quaest. Rom. 30; Ignat. ad Eph. 6. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 373 shows that the earlier Greeks said οἴκου or οἰκίας δεσπότης.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
οἰκοδεσπότης oikodespotēs 12x
the master or head of a house or family, Mt. 10:25; 13:27, 52
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† οἰκο-δεσπότης, -ου, ὁ
(< οἶκος, δεσπότης),
the master of a house, a householder: Mt 10:25 13:27 20:11 24:43, Mk 14:14, Lk 12:39 13:25 14:21; ἄνθρωπος οἰ., Mt 13:52 20:1 21:33; pleonast., οἰ. τ. οἰκίας, Lk 22:11 (v. Bl., § 81, 4).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
οἰκοδεσπότης. Like the verb, this non-classical subst. is found in horoscopes, e.g. P Lond 98 vecfo® (i/iia.p.) (=I. p. 130) © φυ[σικὸς οἸϊκ[οδεσπότης] τῆς γενέσεως ᾿Αφροδείτης καὶ “Eppois, similarly 16. 110 (a.p. 138) (=I. p. 132), and PSI III. 1588° (iii/a.D.?) σκοπεῖν δὲ ἐπὶ παντὸς εἴδους τοὺς οἰκοδεσπότας τῶν φώτων. The word in the sense of “‘house-steward”’ (cf. Mt 1075 a/.) occurs in the late P Meyer 24? (vi/A.D.), where the writer states that he is prevented from receiving the visit of a high dignitary—t7d κηδίας Tot οἰκοδεσπότου, ‘ owing to the death of the housesteward.” Hatch (/BZ xxvii. p. 142) cites the Isaurian inscr. υἱοὺς τοὺς οἰκοδεσπίότα)ς from PAS iii. p. 150. Epictetus applies the term to God, 111. 22. 4 ἔστι γάρ τις καὶ ἐνθάδ᾽ οἰκοδεσπότης ἕκαστα [Ὁ] διατάσσων, ‘for here too is a master of the house who orders everything” (Sharp, Ρ- 25).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
οἰκοδεσπότης (oikodespotēs) — householder. οἰκοδεσπότ-ης, ου, ὁ, master or steward of a house, [NT+2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically, of God, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] was preferred by the Atticists, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. native ruler, opposed to foreign emperor, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. Astrology texts, of a planet, owner of a domicile or otherwise predominant, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]