οἰκοδομή oikodomē

Greek word for “building” · Strong’s G3619 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

οἰκοδομή, -ῆς, ἡ; (οἶκος, + δέμω, to build);

How it is translated

Glosses given for oikodomē in context, with how often each is used:

• edification 8
• building 3
• building up 3
• buildings 1
• buildings! 1
• buildings? 1
• building you up 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 14 (4), Ephesians 4 (3), Mark 13 (2), Matthew 24 (1), Romans 14 (1), Romans 15 (1), 1 Corinthians 3 (1), 2 Corinthians 5 (1), 2 Corinthians 10 (1), 2 Corinthians 12 (1)

Forms

• οἰκοδομὴν 10
• οἰκοδομῆς 2
• οἰκοδομὰς 1
• οἰκοδομαί 1
• οἰκοδομάς 1
• οἰκοδομήν 1
• οἰκοδομή 1
• οἰκοδομὴ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with oikodomē more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• συναρμολογέω sunarmologeō “to join” 2
• καθαίρεσις kathairesis “destruction” 2
• ἕκαστος hekastos “each” 3
• καταλύω kataluō “to destroy/lodge” 2
• προφητεύω prophēteuō “to prophesy” 2
• ἐκπορεύω ekporeuō “to depart” 2
• γλῶσσα glōssa “tongue” 2
• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 3
• λίθος lithos “stone” 2
• ἱερόν hieros “temple” 2
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 3
• ἀγαθός agathos “good” 2

Key verses

The verses using oikodomē that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 14:19 — Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
• 1 Corinthians 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
• 1 Corinthians 14:3 — But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
• 1 Corinthians 14:26 — How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let…
• 2 Corinthians 5:1 — For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• 2 Corinthians 10:8 — For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
• 2 Corinthians 12:19 — Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
• 2 Corinthians 13:10 — Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and…
• Ephesians 2:21 — In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
• Ephesians 4:12 — For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Ephesians 4:16 — From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every…
• Ephesians 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.