Strong's Number 3624
Transliteration:
oikos
{oy'-kos}
Word Origin:
of uncertain affinity
TDNT:
5:119,674
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
house 104, household 3, home 1519 2, at home 1722 2, misc 3
Total: 114
Definition:
- a house
- an inhabited house, home
- any building whatever
- of a palace
- the house of God, the tabernacle
- any dwelling place
- of the human body as the abode of demons that possess it
- of tents, and huts, and later, of the nests, stalls, lairs, of animals
- the place where one has fixed his residence, one's settled abode, domicile
- the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household
- the family of God, of the Christian Church, of the church of the Old and New Testaments
- stock, race, descendants of one For Synonyms see entry 5867