2001 Translation

DOULEIAN, douleian

Sounds Like: doo-LI-ah

Translations: slavery, servitude, bondage, a slavery, a servitude, a bondage

From the root: ΔΟΥΛΕΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the state of being a slave or servant, or the condition of being in bondage. It describes the service or submission owed by a slave or servant to a master, or a state of subjection. It can be used to describe literal slavery or a metaphorical state of being enslaved to something, such as sin.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1397 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:9

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 55:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:77

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 4:115
• Book 2 — 13:284
• Book 4 — 6:146
• Book 6 — 5:69
• Book 8 — 1:4, 8:213
• Book 9 — 4:47
• Book 10 — 1:15, 4:68
• Book 11 — 1:2, 6:213, 6:263
• Book 13 — 12:330
• Book 16 — 1:3
• Book 18 — 1:4
• Book 19 — 3:227
• Book 20 — 6:120, 8:166

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 11:6
• Book Three — 8:28
• Book Five — 9:42
• Book Six — 3:30
• Book Seven — 8:4

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 134:4, 134:5, 139:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Samuel — 14:40
• 2 Chronicles — 12:8
• Ezra (Beta) — 8:20
• Nehemiah — 3:5, 9:17, 10:32

From the same root

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

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.

• ΔΟΥΛΕΙΑ — slavery, a slavery, bondage, a bondage, servitude, a servitude, service, a service
• ΔΟΥΛΕΙΑΣ — slavery, servitude, bondage, service
• ΔΟΥΛΙΑΝ — slavery, servitude, bondage, a slavery, a servitude, a bondage
• ΔΟΥΛΙΑΣ — of slavery, of bondage, of servitude, of service
• ΚΑΙΔΟΥΛΕΙΑ — and slavery, and bondage, and service, and servitude

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