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Lexicon :: Strong's G3625 - oikoumenē

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οἰκουμένη
Transliteration
oikoumenē (Key)
Pronunciation
oy-kou-men'-ay
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Feminine participle present passive of οἰκέω (G3611) (as noun, by implication of γῆ (G1093))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:157,674

Strong’s Definitions

οἰκουμένη oikouménē, oy-kou-men'-ay; feminine participle present passive of G3611 (as noun, by implication, of G1093); land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire:—earth, world.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G3625 in the following manner: world (14x), earth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G3625 in the following manner: world (14x), earth (1x).

  1. the inhabited earth

    1. the portion of the earth inhabited by the Greeks, in distinction from the lands of the barbarians

    2. the Roman empire, all the subjects of the empire

    3. the whole inhabited earth, the world

    4. the inhabitants of the earth, men

  2. the universe, the world

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οἰκουμένη oikouménē, oy-kou-men'-ay; feminine participle present passive of G3611 (as noun, by implication, of G1093); land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire:—earth, world.
STRONGS G3625:
οἰκουμένη, οἰκουμένης, ἡ (feminine of the present passive participle from οἰκέω (namely, γῆ; cf. Winers Grammar, § 64, 5; Buttmann, § 123, 8));
1. the inhabited earth;
a. in Greek writings often the portion of the earth inhabited by the Greeks, in distinction from the lands of the barbarians, cf. Passow, ii., p. 415a; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I.).
b. in the Greek authors who wrote about Roman affairs (like the Latinorbis terrarum) equivalent to the Roman empire: so πᾶσα ἡ οἰκουμένη contextually equivalent to all the subjects of this empire, Luke 2:1.
c. the whole inhabited earth, the world (so in (Hyperides, Eux. 42 (probably Liddell and Scott)) the Sept. for תֵּבֵל and אֶרֶץ): Luke 4:5; Luke 21:26; Acts 24:5; Romans 10:18; Revelation 16:14; Hebrews 1:6 (πᾶσα ἡ οἰκουμένη, Josephus, b. j. 7, 3, 3); ὅλῃ ἡ οἰκουμένη, Matthew 24:14; Acts 11:28 (in the same sense Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 4 πᾶσα ἡ οἰκουμένη; cf. Bleek, Erklär. d. drei ersten Evv. i., p. 68); by metonymy, the inhabitants of the earth, men: Acts 17:6, 31 (Psalm 9:9); Acts 19:27; ἡ οἰκουμένη ὅλῃ, all mankind, Revelation 3:10; Revelation 12:9.
2. the universe, the world: Wis. 1:7 (alternating there with τά πάντα); ἡ οἰκουμένη μελλουσα, that consummate state of all things which will exist after Christ's return from heaven, Hebrews 2:5 (where the word alternates with πάντα and τά πάντα, Hebrews 2:8, which there is taken in an absolute sense).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
9:9
Matthew
24:14
Luke
2:1; 4:5; 21:26
Acts
11:28; 17:6; 17:31; 19:27; 24:5
Romans
10:18
Hebrews
1:6; 2:5; 2:8
Revelation
3:10; 12:9; 16:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3625 matches the Greek οἰκουμένη (oikoumenē),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:1 - In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:5 - And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:26 - people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:28 - And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:6 - And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:27 - And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:5 - For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:18 - But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
“Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:6 - And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 2:5 - For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:10 - Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:9 - And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:14 - For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
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