# ὀφειλέτης (opheiletēs)

Strong’s G3781. 7 New Testament occurrences.

(a) a debtor, one who owes, one who is indebted, (b) one who has sinned against another (an Aramaism), a sinner.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/opheiletes-g3781

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/6/12) — And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
- [Matthew 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/18/24) — And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
- [Luke 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/13/4) — Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
- [Romans 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/1/14) — I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
- [Romans 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/8/12) — Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
- [Romans 15:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/15/27) — It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister…
- [Galatians 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/5/3) — For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.