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Lexicon :: Strong's G3618 - oikodomeō

Aa
οἰκοδομέω
Transliteration
oikodomeō (Key)
Pronunciation
oy-kod-om-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as οἰκοδομή (G3619)
mGNT
41x in 22 unique form(s) TR
39x in 21 unique form(s) LXX
347x in 59 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:136,674

Strong’s Definitions

οἰκοδομέω oikodoméō, oy-kod-om-eh'-o; from the same as G3619; to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm:—(be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's G3618 in the following manner: build (24x), edify (7x), builder (5x), build up (1x), be in building (1x), embolden (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's G3618 in the following manner: build (24x), edify (7x), builder (5x), build up (1x), be in building (1x), embolden (1x).

  1. to build a house, erect a building

    1. to build (up from the foundation)

    2. to restore by building, to rebuild, repair

  2. metaph.

    1. to found, establish

    2. to promote growth in Christian wisdom, affection, grace, virtue, holiness, blessedness

    3. to grow in wisdom and piety

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οἰκοδομέω oikodoméō, oy-kod-om-eh'-o; from the same as G3619; to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm:—(be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden.
STRONGS G3618:
οἰκοδομέω, οἰκοδομῶ; imperfect ᾠκοδόμουν; future οἰκοδομήσω; 1 aorist ᾠκοδόμησα (ὀικοδόμησα Tr WH in Acts 7:47; see Tdf. at the passage; Proleg., p. 120; WHs Appendix, p. 161; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 153; Winers Grammar, § 12, 4; Buttmann, 34 (30)); passive (present ὀικοδομοῦμαι (infinitive οἰκοδομεῖσθαι, Luke 6:48 Treg.); perfect infinitive οἰκοδομῆσθαι (Luke 6:48 T WH)); pluperfect 3 person singular ᾠκοδόμητο; 1 aorist ὠκοδομήθην (ὀικοδομήθην, T WH in John 2:20); 1 future ὀικοδομηθήσομαι; (οἰκοδόμος, which see); from Herodotus down; the Sept. for בָּנָה; to build a house. erect a building;
a. properly,
α. to build (up from the foundation): absolutely, Luke 11:48 G T WH Tr text Luke 14:30; 17:28; οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες, a substantive, the builders (cf. Winers Grammar, § 45, 7; Buttmann, § 144, 11), Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11 Rec.; 1 Peter 2:7, from Psalm 117:22 (Ps. 118); ἐπ' ἀλλότριον θεμέλιον, to build upon a foundation laid by others, i. e. (without a figure) to carry on instruction begun by others, Romans 15:20; οἰκοδομεῖν τί, Galatians 2:18; πύργον, Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1; Luke 14:28; ἀποθήκας, Luke 12:18; ναόν, Mark 14:58; passive John 2:20 (on the aorist cf. 2 Esdr. 5:16); οἶκον, passive, 1 Peter 2:5 ((here T ἐποικον), cf. Winer's Grammar, 603 (561), and add ὀικούργειν τά κατά τόν οἶκον, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 3 [ET]); (οἰκίαν, Luke 6:48 (cf. Winer's Grammar, the passage cited)); συναγωγήν or οἶκον τίνι, for the use of or in honor of one, Luke 7:5; Acts 7:47, 49 (Genesis 8:20; Ezekiel 16:24); οἰκίαν ἐπί τί, Matthew 7:24, 26; Luke 6:49; πόλιν ἐπ' ὄρους, Luke 4:29.
β. contextually equivalent to to restore by building, to rebuild, repair: τί, Matthew 23:29; Matthew 26:61; Matthew 27:40; Mark 15:29; Luke 11:47 and R (L brackets Tr marginal reading) in 48.
b. metaphorically,
α. equivalent to to found: ἐπί ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρα οἰκοδομήσω μου τήν ἐκκλησίαν, i. e. by reason of the strength of thy faith thou shalt be my principal support in the establishment of my church, Matthew 16:18.
β. Since both a Christian church and individual Christians are likened to a building or temple in which God or the Holy Spirit dwells (1 Corinthians 3:9, 16ff; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21), the erection of which temple will not be completely finished till the return of Christ from heaven, those who, by action, instruction, exhortation, comfort, promote the Christian wisdom of others and help them to live a correspondent life are regarded as taking part in the erection of that building, and hence, are said οἰκοδομεῖν, i. e. (dropping the figure) to promote growth in Christian wisdom, affection, grace, virtue, holiness, blessedness: absolutely, Acts 20:32 L T Tr WH; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 10:23; τινα, 1 Corinthians 14:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; passive to grow in wisdom, piety, etc., Acts 9:31; 1 Corinthians 14:17; universally, to give one strength and courage, dispose to: εἰς τήν πίστιν, Polycarp, ad Philip. 3, 2 [ET] (yet here to be built up into (in) etc.); even to do what is wrong (A. V. embolden), εἰς τό τά εἰδωλόθυτα ἐσθίειν, 1 Corinthians 8:10 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 39, 3 N. 3). This metaphorical use of the verb Paul, in the opinion of Fritzsche (Ep. ad Romans, iii., p. 205f), did not derive from the figure, of building a temple, but from the O. T., where "בָּנָה and הָרַס with an accusative of the person (to build one up and to pull one down) denote to bless and to ruin; to prosper and to injure, anyone"; cf. Psalm 27:5 (Ps. 28:5); Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 40:7 (Jer. 33:7). (Compare: ἀνοικοδομέω, ἐποικοδομέω, συνοικοδομέω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
8:20
Psalms
27:5; 28:5; 118
Jeremiah
24:6; 33:7; 40:7
Ezekiel
16:24
Matthew
7:24; 7:26; 16:18; 21:33; 21:42; 23:29; 26:61; 27:40
Mark
12:1; 12:10; 14:58; 15:29
Luke
4:29; 6:48; 6:48; 6:48; 6:49; 7:5; 11:47; 11:48; 12:18; 14:28; 14:30; 17:28; 20:17
John
2:20; 2:20
Acts
4:11; 7:47; 7:47; 7:49; 9:31; 20:32
Romans
15:20
1 Corinthians
3:9; 3:16; 8:1; 8:10; 10:23; 14:4; 14:17
2 Corinthians
6:16
Galatians
2:18
Ephesians
2:21
1 Thessalonians
5:11
1 Peter
2:5; 2:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3618 matches the Greek οἰκοδομέω (oikodomeō),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:24 - Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:26 - And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:18 - And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 - Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:42 - Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29 - A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:61

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:61 - But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:40 - You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:1 - And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:10 - Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:58

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:58 - He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:29 - And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:29 - And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:48 - He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:49 - But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:5 - It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:47 - A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:48 - So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:18 - And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:28 - For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:30 - And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:28 - In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:17 - But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:20 - The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:11 - He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:47

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:47 - But Solomon was the builder of his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:49

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:49 - Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:31 - And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:32 - And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:20 - Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:23 - We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:4 - He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:17 - For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:18 - For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:11 - So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:5 - You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:7 - And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;
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