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κατοικέω

to dwell

‘to dwell’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G2730 Strong's Greek
katoikéō Transliteration
/kat-oy-keh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 45 appearances

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About this entry

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κατοικεω — transliterated katoikéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to dwell.” Its English rendering has broadened — “dwell” classically, “living” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 41 verses — moderately common. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 41-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
dwell
Modern gloss
to dwell
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G2730 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 →

41
distinct verses
The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
9 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:23
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:23.
Revelation 17:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 17:8.
#337
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 337 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 6 · 15%
  • Acts 19 · 46%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 7%
  • General Epistles 3 · 7%
  • Revelation 10 · 24%

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 41 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 51%
  • Johannine 10 verses · 24%
  • Revelation 10 verses · 24%
  • Gospels 6 verses · 15%
  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 2%

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: Dwell 14×, Dwelt 11×, Dwelleth 7×
  • American Standard Version: Dwell 17×, Dwelt 10×, Dwelleth 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Dwell 15×, Living 6×, Lived 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Living 10×, Ones living 10×, Inhabiting 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2730 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Dwell” 14×
  • “Dwelt” 11×
  • “Dwelleth” 7×
  • “Dwelling” 3×
  • “They that dwell” 3×
  • “Dwellers” 2×
  • “Inhabiters” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2730 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Dwell” 17×
  • “Dwelt” 10×
  • “Dwelleth” 5×
  • “They that dwell” 3×
  • “Dwellers” 2×

Plus 11 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 G2730 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Dwell” 15×
  • “Living” 6×
  • “Lived” 5×
  • “Dwells” 4×

Plus 11 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 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2730 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Living” 10×
  • “Ones living” 10×
  • “Inhabiting” 4×
  • “Live” 4×
  • “He lived” 3×
  • “Does” 2×
  • “Dwells” 2×
  • “Resides” 2×

Plus 11 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.

  1. metaph. divine powers, influences, etc., are said to dwell in his soul, to pervade, prompt, govern it
  2. God is said to dwell in the temple, i.e. to be always present for worshippers

Word origin

Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 07:33,7

From G2596 and G3611 ; to house permanently that is reside (literally or figuratively): - dwell (-er) inhabitant (-ter).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 14 distinct written forms G2730 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
κατοικοῦντας katoikoûntas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 13:4 9
κατοικοῦντες katoikoûntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 2:5 9
κατοικεῖ katoikeî Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:45 7
κατοικοῦσιν katoikoûsin Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Acts 1:19 5
κατοικῆσαι katoikē̂sai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 7:2 3
κατῴκησεν katṓkēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 2:23 3
κατοικούντων katoikoúntōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Acts 22:12 2
κατοικήσας katoikḗsas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 11:9 1
κατοικεῖν katoikeîn Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Acts 17:26 1
κατοικεῖς katoikeîs Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Revelation 2:13 1
κατοικεῖτε katoikeîte Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Acts 7:4 1
κατοικοῦντι katoikoûnti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 23:21 1
κατοικῶν katoikō̂n Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 1:20 1
κατῴκισεν katṓkisen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular James 4:5 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2730, 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

+103 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 131 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word κατοικεω appears 567 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 509 verses in 33 books.

567
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
509
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
33 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2730) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 509. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2730) 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.

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