2001 Translation

DESPOTĒS, despotēs

Sounds Like: des-PO-tays

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

From the root: ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a master, lord, or owner, someone who has absolute authority or control over others, such as servants, slaves, or possessions. It is often used in a secular context for a human master, but it is also frequently used in a religious context to refer to God or Christ as the ultimate Lord and Master.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G1203 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 1:7, 4:3

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 6:5, 7:5, 8:2, 9:4, 11:1, 20:11, 24:1, 33:1, 33:2, 36:2, 36:4, 40:1, 49:6, 52:1, 64:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 7:9
• 4 Maccabees — 2:24, 6:31, 18:2
• Wisdom — 6:7, 8:3, 13:3
• Sirach — 34:24
• Isaiah — 1:24, 3:1, 10:33
• Revelation — 6:10
• Epistle of Barnabas — 1:7, 4:3
• Shepherd of Hermas — 6:4, 6:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:20
• Book 4 — 8:281
• Book 5 — 1:93
• Book 6 — 4:63, 11:228
• Book 7 — 13:331, 15:390
• Book 14 — 9:162
• Book 18 — 6:213

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 1:2, 14:15, 16:35
• Book Three — 8:63
• Book Six — 6:35
• Book Seven — 7:27

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:5

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 8:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Judith — 7:9
• 2 Maccabees — 5:17, 6:14
• 4 Maccabees — 6:31, 18:2
• Wisdom — 6:7, 8:3, 13:3
• Sirach — 31:29
• Isaiah — 1:24, 3:1, 10:33
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:5
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 1 — 1:6, 1:9
• Parable 5 — 2:2, 2:5, 2:6, 2:11
• Parable 9 — 5:7, 7:6, 9:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 2 — 2:4, 2:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Revelation — 6:10

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
• ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΝ — master, a master, lord, a lord, owner, an owner
• 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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