οἰκοδομή
building
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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.
- 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.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 11 times (61%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 2 times (11%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 2 times (11%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (11%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3619 appears — 18 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 13:1 οἰκοδομαί n nom pl fem As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
- Mark 13:2 οἰκοδομάς n acc pl fem Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."
Romans 2 verses
1 Corinthians 5 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:9 οἰκοδομή n nom sg fem For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
- 1 Corinthians 14:3 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
- 1 Corinthians 14:5 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
- 1 Corinthians 14:12 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
2 Corinthians 4 verses
- 2 Corinthians 5:1 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- 2 Corinthians 10:8 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
- 2 Corinthians 12:19 οἰκοδομῆς n gen sg fem Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
- 2 Corinthians 13:10 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
Ephesians 4 verses
- Ephesians 2:21 οἰκοδομὴ n nom sg fem in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- Ephesians 4:12 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
- Ephesians 4:16 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
- Ephesians 4:29 οἰκοδομὴν n acc sg fem Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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 noun οικοδομη centers on the idea of “building.” Translators differ — “edifying” in the King James Version, then “building up” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 18 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Corinthians (28%), then 2 Corinthians and Ephesians. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 18-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3619 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 5 verses 28%
- 2 Corinthians 4 verses 22%
- Ephesians 4 verses 22%
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 18 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 15 verses · 83%
- Gospels 3 verses · 17%
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: Edifying 7×, Edification 4×, Building 3×
- American Standard Version: Edifying 6×, Building 5×, Buildings 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Build up 4×, Building 3×, Building up 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Building up 12×, Building 3×, Buildings 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3619 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3619 across 18 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 G3619 across 18 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3619 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- (the act of) building, building up
- metaph. edifying, edification
- a building (i.e. the thing built, edifice)
Word origin
Derived from οικος (oîkos) (G3624) — house.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3619 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκοδομὴν oikodomḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:3 | 10 |
| οἰκοδομῆς oikodomē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 14:19 | 2 |
| οἰκοδομάς oikodomás | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Mark 13:2 | 1 |
| οἰκοδομή oikodomḗ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 3:9 | 1 |
| οἰκοδομήν oikodomḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 15:2 | 1 |
| οἰκοδομαί oikodomaí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Mark 13:1 | 1 |
| οἰκοδομὰς oikodomàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 24:1 | 1 |
| οἰκοδομὴ oikodomḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 2:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3619, 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
- οικια oikía G3614 house
- οικοδεσποτης oikodespótēs G3617 householder
- οικονομος oikonómos G3623 steward
- οικουρος oikourós G3626 domestic
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οικοδομη appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 2 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 26:27 οἰκοδομή
- Ezekiel 16:61 οἰκοδομή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3619) 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.
- 1 Chronicles 26:27 οἰκοδομή Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 29:1 οἰκοδομή David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
- Ezekiel 16:61 οἰκοδομή Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
- Ezekiel 17:17 οἰκοδομή Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
- Ezekiel 40:2 οἰκοδομή In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3619) 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.
