UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to enslave, to make a slave of someone

Semantic entry: 87.82

Semantic domains: Status

Subdomains: Slave, Free

Definition: to cause someone to become a slave

Notes: In RV ACT 7:6 · LV ACT 7:6 · Read together ACT 7:6 αὐτὸ refers to the preceding τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ‘his descendants.’

ACT 7:6: RV ACT 7:6 · LV ACT 7:6 · Read together ACT 7:6

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OET-RV ACT 7:6

6 And yet God also told him that his descendants would end up staying in another country where they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

OET-LV ACT 7:6

6 But the god spoke thus that will _be the descendants of _him:
a_sojourner in anothers land, and they _will _be _enslaving it and they _will _be _mistreating it four _hundred years.

TIT 2:3: RV TIT 2:3 · LV TIT 2:3 · Read together TIT 2:3

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3 Likewise older women should honour god by their behaviour, not making false accusations, not addicted to a lot of wine. They should teach what is good

OET-LV TIT 2:3

3 The_older _women likewise reverent in behavior, not diabolical, not having _been _enslaved to_ much _wine, good _teaching,

Sense 2: to gain control over, to make a slave of, to cause someone to be subservient to, to cause to be like a slave

Semantic entry: 37.27

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: to gain control over someone and thus make such an individual subservient to one’s own interests

ROM 6:18: RV ROM 6:18 · LV ROM 6:18 · Read together ROM 6:18

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18 and so, having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

OET-LV ROM 6:18

18 And having _been _freed from the sin, you _all _were _enslaved to_ the _righteousness.

ROM 6:22: RV ROM 6:22 · LV ROM 6:22 · Read together ROM 6:22

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22 But now that you’re free from slavery to sin, and are God’s slaves instead, you bear the fruit of holiness, and the end result of that is living forever,

OET-LV ROM 6:22

22 But right _now, having _been _freed from the sin, and having _been _enslaved to_ the _god, you _all _are _having the fruit of _you _all to holiness, and the end is life eternal.

All 6 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 6:18 · RV ROM 6:22 · LV ROM 6:18 · LV ROM 6:22 · Read together ROM 6:18 · Read together ROM 6:22

CO1: RV CO1 7:15 · RV CO1 9:19 · LV CO1 7:15 · LV CO1 9:19 · Read together CO1 7:15 · Read together CO1 9:19

GAL: RV GAL 4:3 · LV GAL 4:3 · Read together GAL 4:3

PE2: RV PE2 2:19 · LV PE2 2:19 · Read together PE2 2:19

Sense 3: to be bound, to be under obligation

Semantic entry: 37.24

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of δουλόω[a] ‘to enslave,’ 87.82: δουλόω) to be firmly bound by an obligation or a relationship

Forms: δουλόομαι

CO1 7:15: RV CO1 7:15 · LV CO1 7:15 · Read together CO1 7:15

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OET-RV CO1 7:15

15 But if the unbeliever departs, let that person go. In such cases, the believing spouse is not tied down to serving their departed spouse, but rather God has called us to peace.

OET-LV CO1 7:15

15 But if the unbeliever is _being _separated, him _let _be _being _separated.
Not has _been _enslaved the brother or the sister in the such matters, but in peace has _called us the god.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δουλόω

Form 1

Sense 1: to enslave, to make a slave of someone

Sense 2: to gain control over, to make a slave of, to cause someone to be subservient to, to cause to be like a slave

Sense 3: to be bound, to be under obligation