Strong's #3781: opheiletes (pronounced of-i-let'-ace)

from 3784; an ower, i.e. person indebted; figuratively, a delinquent; morally, a transgressor (against God):--debtor, which owed, sinner.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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opheiletēs

1) one who owes another, a debtor

1a) one held by some obligation, bound by some duty

1b) one who has not yet made amends to whom he has injured:

1b1) one who owes God penalty or whom God can demand punishment as something due, i.e. a sinner

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G3784

Citing in TDNT: 5:565, 746

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Matthew 6:12: "we forgive our debtors."
Matthew 18:24: "one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents."
Luke 13:4: "them, think ye that they were sinners above all"
Romans 1:14: "I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise,"
Romans 8:12: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh,"
Romans 15:27: "them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the"
Galatians 5:3: "that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."