ὀφειλέτης [4 verses](noun sg masc nom) "Which owed""Debtors" is opheiletes, which means "a debtor," "a person who owes a debt" or "one who is under a bond." -- The word for "debtor" is a form of the word for "debt" used above. It means someone who owes something, that is, someone who was under a bond. In Christ's era, a person under a bond was almost a slave until the debt was paid.