οἶκος oikos

Greek word for “house” · Strong’s G3624 · used 114 times in 106 verses

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Meaning

οἶκος, -οῦ, ὁ; 1. prop., a house, dwelling: 19:16;

Senses in the lexicon

• house: home (78)
• house: household (36)

How it is translated

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

• house 85
• home 11
• household 10
• houses 2
• homes 2
• households 2
• house to house 1
• house itself 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 1 (6), Acts 7 (6), Hebrews 3 (5), 1 Timothy 3 (4), Mark 2 (3), Luke 11 (3), Luke 19 (3), Acts 2 (3), Acts 10 (3), Acts 11 (3)

Forms

• οἶκον 47
• οἴκῳ 20
• οἶκος 12
• οἴκου 12
• οἶκόν 11
• οἶκός 6
• οἴκους 4
• οἴκοις 1
• οἴκων 1

Words used with it

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

• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 15
• κατά kata “according to” 13
• ὅλος holos “all” 8
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 12
• ἐκκλησία ekklēsia “assembly” 8
• εἰ ei “if” 12
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 8
• Ἰσραήλ Israēl “Israel” 6
• ἴδιος idios “one's own/private” 6
• ἀσπάζομαι aspazomai “to pay respects to” 5
• σύν sun “with” 6
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 6

Key verses

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

• Luke 18:14 — I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself…
• Acts 2:46 — And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
• Acts 10:2 — A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
• Acts 10:22 — And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an…
• Acts 16:15 — And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.…
• 1 Timothy 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and…
• 2 Timothy 1:16 — The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
• Hebrews 3:6 — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Hebrews 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in…
• Hebrews 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world,…
• 1 Peter 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1 Peter 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

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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.