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οἰκία

house

‘house’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G3614 Strong's Greek
oikía Transliteration
/oy-kee'-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 94 appearances

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About this entry

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οικια (oikía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “house.” It first appears in Matthew 2:11. Spanning 85 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Matthew dominates its distribution — 24 of 85 verses. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
home
Modern gloss
house
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3614 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 →

85
distinct verses
The word appears in 85 distinct verses.
11 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:11
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:11.
2 John 1:10
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 John 1:10.
#181
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 181 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 85 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 66 · 78%
  • Acts 11 · 13%
  • Pauline Epistles 7 · 8%
  • General Epistles 1 · 1%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 85 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 66 verses · 78%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 32 verses · 38%
  • Pauline corpus 7 verses · 8%
  • Johannine 6 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 1%

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: House 82×, Houses 8×
  • American Standard Version: House 72×, 's house 6×, Houses 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: House 61×, Home 13×, Household 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: House 82×, Houses 8×, Household 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3614 across 95 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 82×
  • “Houses” 8×

Plus 5 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 G3614 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 72×
  • “'s house” 6×
  • “Houses” 5×
  • “' houses” 2×
  • “Whatsoever leviticus house” 2×

Plus 5 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 G3614 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 61×
  • “Home” 13×
  • “Household” 6×
  • “Houses” 5×

Plus 3 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 5 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3614 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 82×
  • “Houses” 8×
  • “Household” 3×

Plus 4 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 3 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. an inhabited edifice, a dwelling
  2. the inmates of a house, the family
  3. property, wealth, goods

Word origin

Derived from οικος (oîkos) (G3624) — house.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 07:11,7

From G3624 ; properly residence (abstractly) but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication a family (especially domestics ): - home house (-hold).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms G3614 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οἰκίαν oikían Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 2:11 41
οἰκίᾳ oikía Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:15 26
οἰκίας oikías Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:14 17
οἰκία oikía Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 10:13 9
οἰκιῶν oikiō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Acts 4:34 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3614, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word οικια appears 219 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 190 verses in 26 books.

219
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
190
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3614) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 190. 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 (G3614) 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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