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οἶκος

house

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G3624 Strong's Greek
oîkos Transliteration
/oy'-kos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 114 appearances

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About this entry

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“house” is the headline sense of the Greek noun οικος (oîkos). Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. With 106 verses in 14 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 9:6. See the sense tree, 106-verse concordance, 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 G3624 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 →

106
distinct verses
The word appears in 106 distinct verses.
14 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 9:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 9:6.
1 Peter 4:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 4:17.
#145
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 145 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 106 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 56 · 53%
  • Acts 24 · 23%
  • Pauline Epistles 15 · 14%
  • General Epistles 11 · 10%
  • 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 106 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 56 verses · 53%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 55 verses · 52%
  • Pauline corpus 15 verses · 14%
  • Hebrews 9 verses · 8%
  • Johannine 4 verses · 4%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 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: House 97×, Houses 5×, Home 3×
  • American Standard Version: House 90×, 's house 5×, Home 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: House 59×, Home 25×, Household 14×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: House 87×, Household 13×, Home 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3624 across 112 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 97×
  • “Houses” 5×
  • “Home” 3×
  • “Household” 3×
  • “House to house” 2×

Plus 2 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.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3624 across 117 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 90×
  • “'s house” 5×
  • “Home” 5×
  • “Houses” 3×
  • “At” 2×
  • “Household” 2×

Plus 10 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 G3624 across 109 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 59×
  • “Home” 25×
  • “Household” 14×
  • “Family” 4×

Plus 7 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 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3624 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “House” 87×
  • “Household” 13×
  • “Home” 7×
  • “Houses” 4×
  • “Households” 2×
  • “To” 2×

Plus 5 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 5 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 house, home
  2. any building whatever
  3. any dwelling place
  4. the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household
  5. stock, family, descendants of one

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 06:59,7

Of uncertain affinity; a dwelling (more or less extensive literally or figuratively); by implication a family (more or less related literally or figuratively): - home house (-hold) temple.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 10 distinct written forms G3624 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οἶκον oîkon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:7 46
οἴκῳ oíkō Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Mark 2:1 20
οἴκου oíkou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 10:6 12
οἶκος oîkos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:13 12
οἶκόν oîkón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:6 11
οἶκός oîkós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:13 6
οἴκους oíkous Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Luke 16:4 4
οικον oikon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine John 7:53 1
οἴκοις oíkois Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 11:8 1
οἴκων oíkōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 Timothy 3:12 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3624, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word οικος appears 1,820 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,515 verses in 37 books.

1,820
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,515
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
37 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3624) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,515. 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 (G3624) 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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