oikodespotes denotes the person with authority over a household, its people, and its property.

The term consistently identifies the person who exercises authority over a household or its estate: he may guard his home, shut its door, direct a slave, host a meal, manage a vineyard, or be addressed concerning a guest room.

1. Household owner or master · dominant

   Across the verses, the noun identifies the person responsible for a house and those connected with it. In Luke 13:25 the APB renders the clause about the man who rises and shuts the door while people remain outside; in Luke 14:21 it renders the person who becomes angry and directs his slave to bring people in. In Matthew 21:33 the nominative form identifies the man who plants, equips, and leases a vineyard, while Matthew 20:11 presents workers murmuring against him after receiving payment.

   Luke 13:25Luke 14:21Luke 22:11Matthew 20:1Matthew 20:11Matthew 21:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "householder," but also renders the term as "master of the house" in Luke 22:11 and as "human householder" in Matthew 20:1. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.