debtor
Opheiletes denotes a person under an obligation, whether in an account, toward others, or in relation to required conduct.
The occurrences chiefly describe persons under an obligation: in accounts, in reciprocal material service, and in stated obligations toward people or conduct. The same designation is also used in Luke 13:4 for people characterized in comparison with Jerusalem’s other inhabitants.
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Person obligated in accounts or service · dominant
In Matthew 18:24, the nominative singular occurs as an account is being settled, and the APB renders the clause "one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him." In Matthew 6:12, the dative plural stands in the request to forgive debts as forgiveness has been extended to those under obligation; Romans 15:27 similarly calls recipients of spiritual things obligated to minister in fleshly things.
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Person bound to a stated obligation · common
In Galatians 5:3, the nominative singular identifies the circumcised person as obligated "to do the whole law" in the APB rendering. Romans 1:14 places the nominative singular with Greeks, barbarians, wise, and foolish, while Romans 8:12 uses the nominative plural to deny an obligation to the flesh for living according to it.
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Person described as culpable by comparison · rare
In Luke 13:4, the nominative plural occurs in the question whether those killed by the tower's fall "became debtors beyond all the people who dwell in Jerusalem" in the APB. The clause applies the term comparatively to those people rather than to an account settlement.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB repeatedly uses "debtor" or "debtors," including account settlement in Matthew 18:24 and obligations in Galatians 5:3 and Romans 8:12. In Matthew 6:12 it uses "debtors" alongside "debts"; Its wording only presents the clauses' overall framing.