Strong's #3784: opheilema (pronounced of-i'-lay-mah)

probably from the base of 3786 (through the idea of accruing); to owe (pecuniarily); figuratively, to be under obligation (ought, must, should); morally, to fail in duty:--behove, be bound, (be) debt(-or), (be) due(-ty), be guilty (indebted), (must) need(-s), ought, owe, should. See also 3785.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

̓́ / ̓́

opheilō / opheileō

1) to owe

1a) to owe money, be in debt for

1a1) that which is due, the debt

2) metaphorically the goodwill due

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: or (in certain tenses) its prolonged form opheileo; probably from the base of G3786 (through the idea of accruing)

Citing in TDNT: 5:559, 746

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Matthew 18:28: "of his fellow servants, which owed him a hundred pence: and"
Matthew 18:28: "Pay me that thou owest."
Matthew 18:30: "till he should pay the debt."
Matthew 18:34: "he should pay all that was due unto him."
Matthew 23:16: "by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!"
Matthew 23:18: "the gift that is upon it, he is guilty."
Luke 7:41: "debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the"
Luke 11:4: "also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us"
Luke 16:5: "unto the first, how much owest thou unto my lord?"
Luke 16:7: "he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said,"
Luke 17:10: "we have done that which was our duty to do."
John 13:14: "feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet."
John 19:7: "by our law he ought to die, because he made himself"
Acts 17:29: "as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead"
Romans 13:8: " Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth"
Romans 15:1: "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the"
Romans 15:27: "have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things."
1 Corinthians 5:10: "with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world."
1 Corinthians 7:3: "render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also"
1 Corinthians 7:36: "if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do"
1 Corinthians 9:10: "For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in"
1 Corinthians 11:7: "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is"
1 Corinthians 11:10: "For this cause ought the woman to have power on"
2 Corinthians 12:11: "me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for"
2 Corinthians 12:14: "for the children ought not to lay up for the parents,"
Ephesians 5:28: "So ought men to love their wives as their own"
2 Thessalonians 1:3: " We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as"
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you,"
Philemon 1:18: "he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aught, put that on mine account;"
Hebrews 2:17: "Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be"
Hebrews 5:3: "And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people,"
Hebrews 5:12: "for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need"
1 John 2:6: "he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk,"
1 John 3:16: "for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for"
1 John 4:11: "loved us, we ought also to love one another."
3 John 1:8: "We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers"