noun · feminine
katoikias
Strong’sG2733
a dwelling, habitation
stem katoiki-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† κατ-οικία, -ας, ἡ
(< κατοικέω), [in LXX chiefly for מוֹשָׁב, Ex 35:3, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2733 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-oy-kee'-ah
residence (properly, the condition; but by implication, the abode itself)
King Jameshabitation.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
habitation, βαρβάρων Refs 4th c.BC+; farm, village, Refs 2nd c.BC+: generally, dwelling-place, NT; domicile, Mitteis Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 settlement, colony, Refs 1st c.BC+; especially of military colonies in Egypt, Refs 2nd c.BC+, etc.; also, = Latin colonia, Refs 1st c.BC+; κατοικίαι πόλεων foundation of colonies, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 body of residents in a foreign city, ἡ κ. τῶν ἐν Ἱεραπόλει κατοικούντων Ἰουδαίων Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | katoikias | katoikiais |
| object accusative | katoikian | katoikiain |
| direct address vocative | katoikiar | katoikiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katoikiau1×κατοικίας | katoikiaiu |
| to, for dative | katoikia | katoikiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
katoikia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
katoikiau“where … live”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 17:26“where … live”… prostassorēntoin kairoin kai tain horothesiain tau katoikiau autoiu,… determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.