3619. oikodomé
Strong's Lexicon
oikodomé: Building, edification, structure

Original Word: οἰκοδομή
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: oikodomé
Pronunciation: oy-kod-om-ay'
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-kod-om-ay')
Definition: Building, edification, structure
Meaning: (a) the act of building, (b) a building, (c) met: spiritual advancement, edification.

Word Origin: From the Greek verb οἰκοδομέω (oikodomeó), meaning "to build" or "to construct."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The Hebrew equivalent often used in similar contexts is בָּנָה (banah), which means "to build" or "to construct."

Usage: The term "oikodomé" primarily refers to the act of building or constructing a physical structure. In the New Testament, it is often used metaphorically to describe the spiritual edification or building up of the church and individual believers. It emphasizes growth, strengthening, and development in faith and character.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the ancient Greco-Roman world, construction and architecture were significant aspects of daily life, with buildings serving as places of worship, commerce, and community gathering. The metaphor of building was a powerful image for early Christians, who saw the church as a spiritual house being built by God. This imagery would have resonated with a culture familiar with the importance of strong foundations and well-constructed edifices.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 3619 oikodomḗ – properly, a building (edifice) serving as a home; (figuratively) constructive criticism and instruction that builds a person up to be the suitable dwelling place of God, i.e. where the Lord is "at home." See 3618 (oikodemeō).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from oikos and the same as dóma
Definition
(the act of) building, a building
NASB Translation
building (8), buildings (3), edification (5), edifying (1), upbuilding (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3619: οἰκοδομή

οἰκοδομή, οἰκοδομῆς, (οἶκος, and δέμω to build), a later Greek word, condemned by Phryn., yet used by Aristotle, Theophrastus, ((but both these thought to be doubtful)), Diodorus (1, 46), Philo (vit. Moys. i. § 40; de monarch. ii. § 2), Josephus, Plutarch, the Sept., and many others, for οἰκοδόμημα and οἰκοδόμησις; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 481ff, cf. p. 421; (Winer's Grammar, 24);

1. (the act of) building, building up, equivalent to τό οἰκοδομεῖν; as, τῶν τειχέων, 1 Macc. 16:23; τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ, 1 Chronicles 26:27; in the N. T. metaphorically, "edifying, edification, i. e. the act of one who promotes another's growth in Christian wisdom, piety, holiness, happiness" (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'. (cf. Winer's Grammar, 35 (34))): Romans 14:19; Romans 15:2; (1 Corinthians 14:26); 2 Corinthians 10:8 (see below); ; Ephesians 4:29; with a genitive of the person whose growth is furthered, ὑμῶν, 2 Corinthians 12:19 (cf. 10:8); ἑαυτοῦ (Tdf. αὐτοῦ), Ephesians 4:16; τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ephesians 4:12; τῆς ἐκκλησίας, 1 Corinthians 14:12; equivalent to τό ὀικοδομουν, what contributes to edification, or augments wisdom, etc. λαλεῖν, λαβεῖν, οἰκοδομήν, 1 Corinthians 14:3, 5.

2. equivalent to οἰκοδόμημα, a building (i. e. thing built, edifice): Mark 13:1f; τοῦ ἱεροῦ, Matthew 24:1; used of the heavenly body, the abode of the soul after death, 2 Corinthians 5:1; tropically, of a body of Christians, a Christian church (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'.), Ephesians 2:21 (cf. πᾶς, I. 1 c.); with a genitive of the owner or occupant, Θεοῦ, 1 Corinthians 3:9.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
building, edification

Feminine (abstract) of a compound of oikos and the base of doma; architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation -- building, edify(-ication, -ing).

see GREEK oikos

see GREEK doma

Forms and Transliterations
οικοδομαι οικοδομαί οἰκοδομαί οικοδομας οικοδομάς οἰκοδομάς οἰκοδομὰς οικοδομη οικοδομή οἰκοδομή οἰκοδομὴ οικοδομην οικοδομήν οἰκοδομήν οἰκοδομὴν οικοδομης οικοδομής οἰκοδομῆς oikodomai oikodomaí oikodomas oikodomás oikodomàs oikodome oikodomē oikodomḗ oikodomḕ oikodomen oikodomēn oikodomḗn oikodomḕn oikodomes oikodomês oikodomēs oikodomē̂s
Links
Interlinear GreekInterlinear HebrewStrong's NumbersEnglishman's Greek ConcordanceEnglishman's Hebrew ConcordanceParallel Texts
Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 24:1 N-AFP
GRK: αὐτῷ τὰς οἰκοδομὰς τοῦ ἱεροῦ
NAS: out the temple buildings to Him.
KJV: him the buildings of the temple.
INT: to him the buildings of the temple

Mark 13:1 N-NFP
GRK: καὶ ποταπαὶ οἰκοδομαί
NAS: stones and what wonderful buildings!
KJV: and what buildings [are here]!
INT: and what [wonderful] buildings

Mark 13:2 N-AFP
GRK: τὰς μεγάλας οἰκοδομάς οὐ μὴ
NAS: great buildings? Not one stone
KJV: these great buildings? there shall not
INT: great buildings no not

Romans 14:19 N-GFS
GRK: τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τῆς εἰς
NAS: the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
KJV: one may edify another.
INT: the things for building up among

Romans 15:2 N-AFS
GRK: ἀγαθὸν πρὸς οἰκοδομήν
NAS: for his good, to his edification.
KJV: [his] good to edification.
INT: good for building up

1 Corinthians 3:9 N-NFS
GRK: γεώργιον θεοῦ οἰκοδομή ἐστε
NAS: field, God's building.
KJV: husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
INT: field God's building you are

1 Corinthians 14:3 N-AFS
GRK: ἀνθρώποις λαλεῖ οἰκοδομὴν καὶ παράκλησιν
NAS: to men for edification and exhortation
KJV: unto men [to] edification, and
INT: to men speaks [for] building up and encouragement

1 Corinthians 14:5 N-AFS
GRK: ἡ ἐκκλησία οἰκοδομὴν λάβῃ
NAS: that the church may receive edifying.
KJV: the church may receive edifying.
INT: the church building up might receive

1 Corinthians 14:12 N-AFS
GRK: πρὸς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας
NAS: to abound for the edification of the church.
KJV: to the edifying of the church.
INT: for the building up of the church

1 Corinthians 14:26 N-AFS
GRK: πάντα πρὸς οἰκοδομὴν γινέσθω
NAS: be done for edification.
KJV: be done unto edifying.
INT: All things for building up let be done

2 Corinthians 5:1 N-AFS
GRK: σκήνους καταλυθῇ οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ θεοῦ
NAS: we have a building from God,
KJV: we have a building of
INT: tabernacle be destroyed a building from God

2 Corinthians 10:8 N-AFS
GRK: κύριος εἰς οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ
NAS: gave for building you up and not for destroying
KJV: us for edification, and not
INT: Lord for building up and not

2 Corinthians 12:19 N-GFS
GRK: τῆς ὑμῶν οἰκοδομῆς
NAS: and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
KJV: for your edifying.
INT: your building up

2 Corinthians 13:10 N-AFS
GRK: μοι εἰς οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ
NAS: gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
KJV: me to edification, and not
INT: me for building up and not

Ephesians 2:21 N-NFS
GRK: ᾧ πᾶσα οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει
NAS: the whole building, being fitted together,
KJV: all the building fitly framed together
INT: whom the whole building fitted together increases

Ephesians 4:12 N-AFS
GRK: διακονίας εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ σώματος
NAS: of service, to the building up of the body
KJV: for the edifying of the body
INT: of [the] ministry for building up of the body

Ephesians 4:16 N-AFS
GRK: ποιεῖται εἰς οἰκοδομὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἐν
NAS: of the body for the building up of itself
KJV: unto the edifying of itself
INT: makes for itself to [the] building up of itself in

Ephesians 4:29 N-AFS
GRK: ἀγαθὸς πρὸς οἰκοδομὴν τῆς χρείας
NAS: [a word] as is good for edification according to the need
KJV: the use of edifying, that
INT: good for building up of the need

Strong's Greek 3619
18 Occurrences


οἰκοδομαί — 1 Occ.
οἰκοδομὰς — 2 Occ.
οἰκοδομή — 2 Occ.
οἰκοδομήν — 11 Occ.
οἰκοδομῆς — 2 Occ.

















3618
Top of Page
Top of Page