δουλεία

Alternative forms

• δουληΐη (doulēḯē) – Ionic
• δουλῐ́ᾱ (doulíā)

Etymology

From δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”) +‎ -ῐ́α (-ía).

Pronunciation

Noun

δουλείᾱ • (douleíā) f (genitive δουλείᾱς); first declension

1. slavery, bondage
2. servility
3. group of slaves
4. service for hire

References

• δουλεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δουλεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δουλεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δουλεία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
• G1397 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• δουλεία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bondage idem, page 89.
  • captivity idem, page 113.
  • dependence idem, page 211.
  • downright idem, page 249.
  • drudgery idem, page 254.
  • servility idem, page 756.
  • servitude idem, page 756.
  • slavery idem, page 783.
  • thraldom idem, page 869.
  • vassalage idem, page 945.

Noun

δουλεία • (douleía) f (plural δουλείες)

1. slavery, enslavement