ὀφειλέτης

From ὀφείλω (opheílō).

ὀφειλέτης • (opheilétēs) m (genitive ὀφειλέτου); first declension

1. a debtor
2. (with copulative verb) to be under an obligation
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax §590:

     ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς: οὐ κάτοισθ᾽ ἐγὼ θεοῖς
     ὡς οὐδὲν ἀρκεῖν εἴμ᾽ ὀφειλέτης ἔτι; (590–91)

   • (Koine) Epistle to the Romans, 8:12

     Ἄρα οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ὀφειλέται ἐσμὲν οὐ τῇ σαρκὶ τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆν...

3. (New Testament, fig.) a sinner
   • Gospel of Luke, 13:4

     ...δοκεῖτε ὅτι αὐτοὶ ὀφειλέται ἐγένοντο παρὰ πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Ἰερουσαλήμ;

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “ὀφειλέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀφειλέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀφειλέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3781 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • debtor idem, page 199.