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Strong's #3624: oikos (pronounced oy'-kos)

of uncertain affinity; a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively):--home, house(-hold), temple.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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oikos

1) a house

1a) an inhabited house, home

1b) any building whatever

1b1) of a palace

1b2) the house of God, the tabernacle

1c) any dwelling place

1c1) of the human body as the abode of demons that possess it

1c2) of tents, and huts, and later, of the nests, stalls, lairs, of animals

1c3) the place where one has fixed his residence, one' s settled abode, domicile

2) the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household

2a) the family of God, of the Christian Church, of the church of the Old and New Testaments

3) stock, family, descendants of one

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: of uncertain affinity

Citing in TDNT: 5:119, 674




Usage:

This word is used 117 times:

2 Timothy 1:16: "give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed"
2 Timothy 4:19: "Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus."
Titus 1:11: "mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought"
Philemon 1:2: "church in thy house:"
Hebrews 3:2: "was faithful in all his house."
Hebrews 3:3: "hath more honor than the house."
Hebrews 3:4: "For every house is builded by some man; but he that built"
Hebrews 3:5: "in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony"
Hebrews 3:6: "a son over his own house; whose house are we,"
Hebrews 3:6: "his own house; whose house are we, if"
Hebrews 8:8: "covenant with the house of Israel and with the"
Hebrews 8:8: "and with the house of Judah:"
Hebrews 8:10: "that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,"
Hebrews 10:21: "priest over the house of God;"
Hebrews 11:7: "prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which"
1 Peter 2:5: "stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual"
1 Peter 4:17: "must begin at the house of God: and if it first"









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