Household
Household
(usually same in the orig. as house), the members of a family residing in the same abode, including servants and dependants, although in Job 1, 3 a distinction (not observed in the A.V.) is intimated by the term , abuddah,’ lit. service (servants, Gen 26:24), between the domestics and the , bay’ith, or proper family of the master of the house; and some have thought a like difference to be denoted between the Greek term (lit. residence) and v of the N.T., which are both indiscriminately rendered house and household in the English. Version. This latter view is confirmed by the improbability that any of the immediate imperial family (Nero’s) should have been included in the converts to Christianity expressed in the phrase they of Caesar’s household ( , Php 4:22). SEE CAESAR.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Household
HOUSEHOLD.In Mat 24:45 (), Luk 12:42 () = servants, i.e. the dependants on an estate to whom the steward was bound in our Lords parable to serve out rations at intervals of a day, a week, or a month. It was their dependent and helpless condition which was the test of the stewards faithfulness to his trust. The same English word translates in Mat 10:25; Mat 10:36, i.e. the inmates of a house, subordinate indeed to the master, but attached to him by ties of relationship or marriage. In Mat 10:25 there is a contrast and comparison between the (Christs disciples) and the (the Lord Himself), and Christ warns the Twelve that if He has been called Beelzebul (or Beelzebub) by His enemies (cf. Mat 9:34; Mat 12:24, Joh 8:48), those who belong to His household cannot expect to be free from this reproach of Christ. In Mat 10:36 the contrast is between some members of a household and the rest. Here He warns them of the inevitable opposition that will arise when some in a house love Christ supremely, while others are hostile or indifferent to Him. The words of ancient prophecy (Mic 7:6) then receive a fulfilment. The very closeness of association emphasizes the antagonism, and a mans foes shall be they of his own household.
C. H. Prichard.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Household
houshold: three words are usually found in the Bible where the family is indicated. These three are the Hebrew word bayith and the Greek words oika and okos. The unit of the national life of Israel, from the very beginning, was found in the family. In the old patriarchal days each family was complete within itself, the oldest living sire being the unquestioned head of the whole, possessed of almost arbitrary powers. The house and the household are practically synonymous. God had called Abraham that he might command his children and household after him (Gen 18:19). The Passover-lamb was to be eaten by the household (Exo 12:3). The households of the rebels in the camp of Israel shared their doom (Num 16:31-33; Deu 11:6). David’s household shares his humiliation (2Sa 15:16); the children everywhere in the Old Testament are the bearers of the sins of the fathers. Human life is not a conglomerate of individuals; the family is its center and unit.
Nor is it different in the New Testament. The curse and the blessing of the apostles are to abide on a house, according to its attitude (Mat 10:13). A divided house falls (Mar 3:25). The household believes with the head thereof (Joh 4:53; Act 16:15, Act 16:34). Thus the households became the nuclei for the early life of the church, e.g. the house of Prisca and Aquila at Rome (Rom 16:5), of Stephanas (1Co 16:15), of Onesiphorus (2Ti 1:16), etc. No wonder that the early church made so much of the family life. And in the midst of all our modern, rampant individualism, the family is still the throbbing heart of the church as well as of the nation.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Household
Those who dwell in a house under one head, including the wife and children, and embracing servants who were usually slaves. Gen 15:2-3; Luk 12:42; Act 10:7; Php 4:22. We read of the baptism of whole households. Act 16:15; 1Co 1:16. The Lord speaks of His disciples as His household, Mat 10:25; and saints are called the ‘household of faith,’ and the ‘household of God.’ Gal 6:10; Eph 2:19.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Household
is translated “household” in Act 16:15; 1Co 1:16; in the AV of 2Ti 4:19 (RV, “house”). See HOUSE, No. 1.
is translated “household” in Phi 4:22. See HOUSE, No. 2.
denotes “a household of servants,” Mat 24:45 (some mss. have No. 4 here).
“service, care, attention,” is also used in the collective sense of “a household,” in Luk 12:42 (see No. 3). See HEALING.
Notes: (1) In Rom 16:10-11, the phrase “those of the household” translates a curtailed phrase in the original, lit., “the (persons) of (ek, ‘consisting of’) the (members of the household of).” (2) In 1Co 1:11, “they which are of the household (AV, house) of Chloe” is, lit., “the … of Chloe,” the Eng. translation being necessary to express the idiom.
akin to A, No. 1, primarily signifies “of, or belonging to, a house,” hence, “of persons, one’s household, or kindred,” as in 1Ti 5:8, RV, “household,” AV “house,” marg., “kindred;” in Eph 2:19, “the household of God” denotes the company of the redeemed; in Gal 6:10, it is called “the household of the faith,” RV. In these two cases oikeios is used in the same sense as those mentioned under oikos (A, No. 1).
from A, No. 2, denotes “belonging to one’s household, one’s own;” it is used in Mat 10:25, Mat 10:36.