2001 Translation

DESPOTĒN, despotēn

Sounds Like: des-PO-teen

Translations: master, a master, lord, a lord, owner, an owner

From the root: ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a master, lord, or owner, someone who has authority or control over others or over property. It is often used in a respectful or formal context, indicating a position of power or dominion.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G1203 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:8, 10:10, 10:53

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 6:7
• Job — 5:8
• Wisdom — 13:9
• 2 Peter — 2:1
• Jude — 1:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:210, 34:241, 39:278
• Book Two — 34:241, 39:278

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:72
• Book 2 — 11:263
• Book 4 — 6:146
• Book 5 — 9:330
• Book 6 — 13:284, 14:352, 14:353, 14:371
• Book 7 — 9:208, 10:239, 14:372
• Book 8 — 1:2, 7:204, 13:360
• Book 9 — 6:122, 6:126, 6:129, 8:175
• Book 10 — 1:6
• Book 11 — 8:321
• Book 12 — 6:207
• Book 13 — 16:411
• Book 14 — 9:157
• Book 16 — 4:134
• Book 18 — 1:23
• Book 19 — 2:179

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:8, 20:13
• Book Two — 9:13, 17:39
• Book Four — 10:5
• Book Five — 2:42
• Book Seven — 10:4, 10:12, 10:13

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 3:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 9:13
• Proverbs — 6:7
• Job — 5:8
• Wisdom — 13:9

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 2 Peter — 2:1
• Jude — 1:4

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΔΕΣΠΟΤΩΣ — without a master, without a lord, without an owner, without a ruler, without control, without restraint, without authority, without a definite author, anonymously
• ΑΔΕΣΠΟΤΟΣ — masterless, without a master, ownerless, without an owner, unclaimed, independent
• ΔΕΠΟΤΟΥ — of a master, of the master, of a lord, of the lord, of an owner, of the owner
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤ — Master, Lord, owner, ruler, a master, a Lord
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤ' — O Master, O Lord, Master, Lord
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑ — O Master, O Lord, O Sovereign
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑΙ — masters, lords, owners
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑΙΣ — to masters, to lords, to rulers, to owners
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΕΥΩ — to rule, to be master, to exercise lordship over, to have dominion over
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗ — master, a master, lord, a lord, sovereign, a sovereign
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ — master, lord, owner, a master, a lord
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΟΥ — of a master, of a lord, of an owner, of a ruler
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΩΝ — of masters, of lords, of owners, of absolute rulers
• ΣΠΟΤΗΝ — master, a master, lord, a lord, owner, an owner

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