Strong's Concordance
oikodomé: (the act of) building, a building
Original Word: οἰκοδομή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: oikodomé
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-kod-om-ay')
Short Definition: the act of building, a building, edification
Definition: (a) the act of building, (b) a building, (c) met: spiritual advancement, edification.
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).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3619: οἰκοδομήοἰκοδομή,
οἰκοδομῆς,
ἡ (
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);
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
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