noun · masculine
oikodomos
Strong’sG3618
a builder
stem oikodom-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.
οἰκο-δόμος, οὐ, ὁ
(< οἶκος + δέμω, to build), [in LXX for בּנה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3618 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoy-kod-om-eh'-o
to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm
Fromfrom the same as G3619;
King James(be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden.
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
future -ήσω: aorist ᾠκοδόμησα (not οἰκ- in Attic dialect): perfect ᾠκοδόμηκα Refs 5th c.BC+: but later Attic dialect perfect passive οἰκοδομημένοι Refs:—build a house: generally, build, νεὼν καὶ βωμόν Refs; νηόν Refs 5th c.BC+; γέφυρανRefs 5th c.BC+ —also in middle, οἰκοδομέεσθαι οἴκημα build oneself a house, have it built, Refs 5th c.BC+: —passive, to be built, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ -ούμεναRefs 4th c.BC+
b generally, fashion, καταπέτασμα LXX
2 metaphorically, build or found upon, ἔργα ἐπί τι Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, build up, edify, NT; οἰ. εἰς τὸν ἕνα NT will be emboldened, NT; compare ἀνοικοδομέω.
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 | oikodomos | oikodomois |
| object accusative | oikodomon | oikodomoin |
| direct address vocative | oikodomor | oikodomoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | oikodomou | oikodomoiu1×οἰκοδόμων |
| to, for dative | oikodomo | oikodomoi |
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
oikodomo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
oikodomoiu“builders”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 4:11… lithos tos exouthenirantos hupo vu toiu oikodomoiu, tos generantos eis kefalan gōniau.This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’