Word Summary
chreōpheiletēs: a debtor
Original Word: χρεωφειλέτηςTransliteration: chreōpheiletēs
Phonetic Spelling: (khreh-o-fi-let'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a debtor
Meaning: a debtor
Strong's Concordance
debtor.
From a derivative of chrao and opheiletes; a loan-ower, i.e. Indebted person -- debtor.
see GREEK chrao
see GREEK opheiletes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5533: χρεωφειλέτηςχρεωφειλέτης (
L T Tr WH χρεοφειλέτης; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 691;
Winers Grammar, § 5, 1 d. 13; (
WHs Appendix, p. 152{b};
Tdf. Proleg., p. 89;
T (?; see as above)
WH χρεωφιλετης, cf.
WH's Appendix, p. 154{b} (see Iota))),
χρεωφειλετου,
ὁ (
χρέος or
χρέως, a loan, a debt, and
ὀφειλέτης, which see),
a debtor:
Luke 7:41;
Luke 16:5. (
Proverbs 29:13;
Job 31:37;
Aesop fab. 289 (edited by Coray, 11th Halm edition); several times in
Plutarch; (also in
Diodorus,
Dionysius Halicarnassus; see
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).)