οἰκία
house
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
5 verses where G3614 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
- Acts 9:17 οἰκίαν n acc sg fem Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
- Acts 10:17 οἰκίαν n acc sg fem Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,
- Acts 11:11 οἰκίαν n acc sg fem Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
- Acts 12:12 οἰκίαν n acc sg fem Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
- Acts 18:7 οἰκίαν οἰκία n acc sg fem n nom sg fem He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- an inhabited edifice, a dwelling
- the inmates of a house, the family
- property, wealth, goods
Word origin
Derived from οικος (oîkos) (G3624) — house.
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
- οικειος oikeîos G3609 domestic
- οικεω oikéō G3611 to dwell in
- οικοδεσποτης oikodespótēs G3617 householder
- οικοδομη oikodomḗ G3619 building
- οικονομος oikonómos G3623 steward
- οικουρος oikourós G3626 domestic
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
- Genesis 17:12 οἰκία
- Exodus 1:21 οἰκία
- Leviticus 14:34 οἰκία
- Numbers 19:14 οἰκία
- Deuteronomy 5:21 οἰκία
- Joshua 2:1 οἰκία
- Judges 18:22 οἰκία
- 1 Samuel 21:16 οἰκία
- 2 Samuel 16:2 οἰκία
- 2 Kings 4:35 οἰκία
- 1 Chronicles 4:21 οἰκία
- Ezra 6:11 οἰκία
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.
- Genesis 17:12 οἰκία He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner who is not of your seed.
- Genesis 17:13 οἰκία He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 19:3 οἰκία He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Genesis 19:4 οἰκία But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 24:2 οἰκία Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
- Genesis 24:31 οἰκία He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
- Genesis 24:32 οἰκία The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
- Genesis 25:27 οἰκία The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Genesis 31:41 οἰκία These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 33:17 οἰκία Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 34:29 οἰκία and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
- Genesis 39:9 οἰκία He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
- Genesis 39:11 οἰκία It happened about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
- Genesis 39:14 οἰκία that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
- Genesis 43:16 οἰκία When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
- Genesis 43:26 οἰκία When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth.
- Genesis 44:1 οἰκία He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 44:4 οἰκία When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Genesis 50:8 οἰκία all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
- Genesis 50:21 οἰκία Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
- Exodus 1:21 οἰκία It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
- Exodus 8:5 οἰκία Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 8:7 οἰκία The magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:9 οἰκία Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only."
- Exodus 8:17 οἰκία They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:19 οἰκία Now therefore command that all of your cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
- Exodus 10:6 οἰκία Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
- Exodus 12:3 οἰκία Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
- Exodus 12:4 οἰκία and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:13 οἰκία The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:15 οἰκία Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:19 οἰκία Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
- Exodus 12:23 οἰκία For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
- Exodus 12:30 οἰκία Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- Exodus 12:46 οἰκία In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Exodus 20:17 οἰκία "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
- Exodus 22:6 οἰκία "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:7 οἰκία "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
- Leviticus 14:34 οἰκία "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
- Leviticus 14:35 οἰκία then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
- Leviticus 14:36 οἰκία The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
- Leviticus 14:37 οἰκία He shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
- Leviticus 14:38 οἰκία then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
- Leviticus 14:39 οἰκία The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
- Leviticus 14:41 οἰκία and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:42 οἰκία They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
- Leviticus 14:43 οἰκία "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
- Leviticus 14:44 οἰκία then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
- Leviticus 14:45 οἰκία He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:46 οἰκία "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
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.
