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Lexicon :: Strong's G3618 - oikodomeō

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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
354x in 60 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

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 354 times in 330 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 2:22–Jdg 1:26)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22 - Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son—Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre,[fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - So he built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - And he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel,[fn] because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:15 - And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Banner;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - ‘And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27 - Therefore those who speak in proverbs say:

“Come to Heshbon, let it be built;
Let the city of Sihon be repaired.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 - Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:34 - And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:38 - Nebo and Baal Meon (their names being changed ) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:12 - “lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:5 - “Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - “Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - “then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:5 - “And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:6 - “You shall build with whole stones the altar of the LORD your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:30 - “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:30 - Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim; and he built the city and dwelt in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - Every one of these cities had its common-land surrounding it; thus were all these cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:10 - And when they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan—a great, impressive altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - Now the children of Israel heard someone say, “Behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan—on the children of Israel’s side.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD: ‘What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - “If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt offerings or grain offerings, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require an account.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:26 - “Therefore we said, ‘Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn from following the LORD this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the LORD our God which is before His tabernacle.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:26 - And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

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