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Strong's #3625: oikoumene (pronounced oy-kou-men'-ay)

feminine participle present passive of 3611 (as noun, by implication, of 1093); land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire:--earth, world.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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oikoumenē

1) the inhabited earth

1a) the portion of the earth inhabited by the Greeks, in distinction from the lands of the barbarians

1b) the Roman empire, all the subjects of the empire

1c) the whole inhabited earth, the world

1d) the inhabitants of the earth, men

2) the universe, the world

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: feminine participle present passive of G3611 (as noun, by implication of G1093)

Citing in TDNT: 5:157, 674




Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Matthew 24:14: "in all the world for a witness unto all nations;"
Luke 2:1: "Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."
Luke 4:5: "all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time."
Luke 21:26: "for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven"
Acts 11:28: "throughout all the world: which"
Acts 17:6: "rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither"
Acts 17:31: "he will judge the world in righteousness by that man"
Acts 19:27: "be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world"
Acts 24:5: "Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect"
Romans 10:18: "the ends of the world."
Hebrews 1:6: "first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels"
Hebrews 2:5: "hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak."
Revelation 3:10: "upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon"
Revelation 12:9: "which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,"
Revelation 16:14: "and of the whole world, to gather them to the"









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