Matthew 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
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Philemon 1:19
I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
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ὀφείλω
opheílō · of-i'-lo
3 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to owe (pecuniarily); figuratively, to be under obligation (ought, must, should); morally, to fail in duty
Strong's KJV usage: :--behove, be bound, (be) debt(-or), (be) due(-ty), be guilty (indebted), (must) need(-s), ought, owe, should.
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Strong's first: Matthew 18:28Strong's last: Luke 16:7
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prosopheílō · pros-of-i'-lo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be indebted additionally
Strong's KJV usage: :--over besides.
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Strong's first: Philemon 1:19Strong's last: Philemon 1:19
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But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
G3784
So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
G3784
Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
G4359
I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
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owe
OWE, verb transitive o. [Gr., Eng. own.]
1. To be indebted; to be obliged or bound to pay. The merchants owe a large sum to foreigners.
A son owes help and honor to his father.
One was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Matthew 18:24.
OWE no man any thing, but to love one another. Romans 13:8.
2. To be obliged to ascribe to; to be obliged for; as, that he may owe to me all his deliverance.
3. To possess; to have; to be the owner of. [This is the original sense, but now obsolete. In place of it, we use own, from the participle. See Own.]
Thou dost here usurp the name thou owest not.
4. To be due or owing.
O deem thy fall not ow'd to man's decree.
[This passive form is not now used.]
OWE, verb intransitive To be bound or obliged.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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