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Strong's #1402 - δουλόω
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- to make a slave of, reduce to bondage
- metaph. give myself wholly to one's needs and service, make myself a bondman to him
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δουλ-όω,
enslave, Hdt. 1.27; δουλοῖς καὶ σὲ καὶ πᾶσαν πόλιν A. Th. 254, cf. S. Tr. 467; δ. φρόνημα Th. 2.61: — mostly in Pass., to be enslaved, ὑπὸ Πέρσῃσι, ὑπὸ Ἁρπάγου, Hdt. 1.94, 174, cf. Th. 1.98; αἱ ψ[]χαὶ δεδούλωνται Hp. Aër. 23; δεδουλωμένοι τῇ γνώμῃ, τὴν γνώμην ἐδουλοῦντο, Th. 4.34, 7.71; ἐλεύθερος πᾶς ἑνὶ δεδούλωται, νόμῳ Men. 699, cf Sam. 280: — Med. (with pf. δεδουλῶσθαι Th. 6.82), make subject to oneself, enslave, Id. 1.18, 5.29, 7.68, 75, Pl. Mx. 239d; τὸν ἥσσονα δουλούμεθ' ἄνδρα E. Supp. 493; ἐπιθυμίαν Pl. Lg. 838d; τὸ ἑαυτοῦ θειότατον ὑπὸ τῷ ἀθεωτάτῳ.. δουλοῦται Id. R. 589e.
δουλόω, δούλῳ: future δουλώσω; 1 aorist ἐδούλωσα; perfect passive δεδουλωμαι; 1 aorist passive ἐδουλωθην; (δοῦλος); (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down); to make a slave of, reduce to bondage;
a. properly: τινα, Acts 7:6; τούτῳ καί (yet T WH omit; Tr brackets καί) δεδούλωται to him he has also been made a bondman, 2 Peter 2:19.
b. metaphorically: ἐμαυτόν τίνι, give myself wholly to one's needs and service, make myself a bondman to him, 1 Corinthians 9:19; δουλουσθαι τίνι, to be made subject to the rule of some one, e. g. τῇ δικαιοσύνη, τῷ Θεῷ, Romans 6:18, 22; likewise ὑπό τί, Galatians 4:3; δεδουλωμενος οἴνῳ, wholly given up to, enslaved to, Titus 2:3 (δουλεύειν οἴνῳ, Libanius, epist. 319); δεδουλωμαι ἐν τίνι, to be under bondage, held by constraint of law or necessity, in some matter, 1 Corinthians 7:15. (Compare: καταδουλόω.)
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δουλόω , -ῶ
(< δοῦλος ),
[in LXX for H5647;]
to enslave, bring into bondage: Acts 7:6 (LXX), 2 Peter 2:19; metaph., 1 Corinthians 9:19; pass., seq. ἐν , 1 Corinthians 7:15; τ . θεῷ , Romans 6:22; τ . δικαιοσύνῃ , Romans 6:18; οἴνῳ , Titus 2:3; ὑπὸ τὰ στοιχεῖα τ . κόσμου , Galatians 4:3 (Cremer, 217).†
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The negatived verbal may be quoted from OGIS 449.6, an honorific decree of the Pergamenes to P. Servilius Isauricus, proconsul of Asia B.C. 46, whom they describe as ἀποδεδωκότα τῆι πόλει τοὺς πατρίους νόμους καὶ τὴν δημοκρατίαν ἀδούλωτον.
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