ἐνοικέω
to dwell in
‘to dwell in’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1774 appears in the Book of Colossians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Colossians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb ενοικεω centers on the idea of “to dwell in.” First canonically at Romans 7:17, it enters the text early. It turns up in 6 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Romans (33%), then 2 Timothy and 2 Corinthians. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1774 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 2 verses 33%
- 2 Timothy 2 verses 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dwelleth 2×
- American Standard Version: Dwelleth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dwell 1×, Dwells 1×, Dwelt 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Living 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1774 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1774 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1774 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1774 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to dwell in
- metaph. to dwell in one and influence him (for good)
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1774 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνοικοῦντος enoikoûntos | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Romans 8:11 | 2 |
| ἐνοικήσω enoikḗsō | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 6:16 | 1 |
| ἐνοικείτω enoikeítō | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Colossians 3:16 | 1 |
| ἐνοικοῦσα enoikoûsa | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 7:17 | 1 |
| ἐνῴκησεν enṓkēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Timothy 1:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1774, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενοικεω appears 33 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 4 books.
- 33
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 26:32 ἐνοἰκέω
- 2 Kings 19:26 ἐνοἰκέω
- Isaiah 5:3 ἐνοἰκέω
- Jeremiah 30:12 ἐνοἰκέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1774) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 26:32 ἐνοἰκέω I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
- 2 Kings 19:26 ἐνοἰκέω Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
- 2 Kings 22:16 ἐνοἰκέω Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
- 2 Kings 22:19 ἐνοἰκέω because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
- Isaiah 5:3 ἐνοἰκέω "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.
- Isaiah 5:9 ἐνοἰκέω In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
- Isaiah 21:14 ἐνοἰκέω To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
- Isaiah 22:21 ἐνοἰκέω and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
- Isaiah 23:2 ἐνοἰκέω Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
- Isaiah 23:6 ἐνοἰκέω Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast.
- Isaiah 24:1 ἐνοἰκέω Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
- Isaiah 24:6 ἐνοἰκέω Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
- Isaiah 24:17 ἐνοἰκέω Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isaiah 26:5 ἐνοἰκέω For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
- Isaiah 26:9 ἐνοἰκέω With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Isaiah 26:18 ἐνοἰκέω We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
- Isaiah 26:21 ἐνοἰκέω For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Isaiah 27:5 ἐνοἰκέω Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.
- Isaiah 32:18 ἐνοἰκέω My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
- Isaiah 32:19 ἐνοἰκέω But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
- Isaiah 33:24 ἐνοἰκέω The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
- Isaiah 37:26 ἐνοἰκέω Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- Isaiah 40:22 ἐνοἰκέω [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
- Isaiah 65:21 ἐνοἰκέω They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
- Isaiah 65:22 ἐνοἰκέω They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
- Jeremiah 30:12 ἐνοἰκέω For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
- Jeremiah 30:17 ἐνοἰκέω For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
- Jeremiah 34:11 ἐνοἰκέω but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- Jeremiah 38:24 ἐνοἰκέω Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die.
- Jeremiah 49:17 ἐνοἰκέω Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.
- Jeremiah 51:2 ἐνοἰκέω I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
- Jeremiah 51:8 ἐνοἰκέω Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1774) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
