the Fourth Week after Easter
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #3620 - οἰκοδομία
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- (the act of) building, erection
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
οἰκοδομ-ία, ἡ,
I = -δόμησις 1, IG 12.338.15 (prob.), Democr. 154, Th. 1.93, Pl. Lg. 804c, PHal. 1.181 (iii B. C.).
II building, edifice, Th. 2.65 (pl.), Pl. Lg. 758e, 759a, al.
οἰκοδομία, ὀικοδομιας, ἡ (οἰκοδομέω) (the act of) buliding, erection (Thucydides, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian, etc.; but never in the Sept.); metaphorically, οἰκοδομίαν Θεοῦ τήν ἐν πίστει, the increase which God desires in faith (see οἰκοδομή), 1 Timothy 1:4 Rec.bez elz; but see οἰκονομία. Not infrequent οἰκονομία and οἰκοδομία are confounded in the manuscripts; see Grimm on 4 Maccabees, p. 365, cf. Hilgenfeld, the Epistle of Barnabas, p. 28; (D'Orville, Chariton 8, 1, p. 599).
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
* οἰκοδομία , -ας , ἡ
(< οἰκοδομέω ),
the act of building: metaph., 1 Timothy 1:4 (BE for οἰκοδομία , q.v.).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
This late form for ὄρθριος (see s.v. ὄρθριος), is condemned by the Atticists (Lob. Phryn. p. 51). In the NT it is confined to Luke 24:22 (cf. Revelation 22:16 TR), but is found quater in the LXX.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
