noun · neuter
oikēmem
Strong’sG3612
a prison
stem oikēm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
οἴκημα, -τος, τό
(< οἰκέω), [in LXX: Ez 16:24 (גַּב), To 2:4, Wi 13:15*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3612 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoy'-kay-mah
a tenement, i.e. (specially), a jail
Fromfrom G3611;
King Jamesprison.
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
dwelling-place, ἱερὸν ἔσχον οἴ. ποταμοῦ Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, building, house, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 room, chamber, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially bed-chamber, Refs 5th c.BC+; dining-room, Refs 4th c.AD+
II special senses,
II.1 brothel, τὴν θυγατέρα κατίσαι ἐπ᾽ οἰκήματος Refs 5th c.BC+; compare τέγος.
II.2 ={οἰκίσκος}, cage for animals, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 horse's stable or stall, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.4 temple, shrine, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4.b room in a temple, Refs
II.5 prison, NT+5th c.BC+
II.6 storeroom, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.7 workshop, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.8 story, floor, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.9 metaphorically, αἰσθητικὸν οἴ., of man, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 or object direct | oikēmem | oikēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | oikēmeu | oikēmeiu |
| to, for dative | oikēme1×οἰκήματι | oikēmei |
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
oikēme 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
oikēme“cell”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 12:7… epistēata, kai fōtem lampata en te oikēme; pataxarantos de tan pleuran tou Petrou …… and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side …