Biblica Analytica
G3614G Greek

οἰκία

oikia

home

Lexicon Entry

Definition
home
Transliteration
oikia
Strong's Number
G3614G
Occurrences
85

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The term "οἰκία" (oikia) translates to "home". It has numerous occurrences in the Bible, amounting to 85 instances. This word is predominantly associated with one's physical living space. Its use highlights various facets of home life, encompassing daily activities, social relationships, and emotional connections within the household. The data indicates a wide-ranging usage of "οἰκία", appearing in various contexts such as conversations about family, possessions, and one's sense of belonging. It suggests that the Greek concept of home life was deeply intertwined with personal identity and community ties. The sheer number of occurrences underscores the significance of the concept in ancient Greek culture, emphasizing the importance of home and family in everyday life. As a concept that permeates 85 instances in the biblical text, "οἰκία" underscores the importance of the home and family unit in ancient Greek society. This word's widespread presence in the biblical narrative likely conveys to its readers a central aspect of human experience: the desire for security, belonging, and connection within a shared living space.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
G3614G
Lemma
οἰκία
Transliteration
oikia
Definition
home
Occurrences
85
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

85 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Matthew 2:11

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Matthew 5:15

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Matthew 7:25

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Matthew 7:26

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7:27

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

Matthew 8:6

and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”

Matthew 8:14

When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

Matthew 9:10

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

Matthew 9:28

When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 10:12

As you enter into the household, greet it.

Matthew 10:14

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

Matthew 12:29

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Matthew 12:29

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Matthew 13:1

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Matthew 17:25

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 23:14

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

Matthew 24:17

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Matthew 26:6

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Mark 1:29

Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

Mark 2:15

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

Mark 3:27

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.

Mark 3:27

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.

Mark 7:24

From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.

Mark 9:33

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

Mark 10:10

In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

Mark 10:29

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

Mark 10:30

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

Mark 12:40

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

Mark 13:15

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Mark 13:15

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Mark 13:34

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Mark 13:35

Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

Mark 14:3

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

Luke 4:38

He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

Luke 5:29

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 6:48

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

Luke 6:48

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

Luke 6:49

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 6:49

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 7:6

Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

Luke 7:37

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Luke 7:44

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

Luke 8:27

When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

Luke 8:51

When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

Luke 9:4

Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.