G3620 οἰκοδομία (oikodomía)

Greek

Noun

Quick Definition

edification

Strong's Definition

confirmation

Derivation: from the same as G3619 (οἰκοδομή);

KJV Usage: edifying

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

οἰκοδομία, ὀικοδομιας, ἡ (οἰκοδομέω) (the act of) buliding, erection (Thucydides, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian, etc.; but never in the Sept.); metaphorically, οἰκοδομίαν Θεοῦ τήν ἐν πίστει, the increase which God desires in faith (see οἰκοδομή), 1Ti_1:4 Rec.bez elz; but see οἰκονομία. Not infrequent οἰκονομία and οἰκοδομία are confounded in the manuscripts; see Grimm on 4 Maccabees, p. 365, cf. Hilgenfeld, the Epistle of Barnabas, p. 28; (D'Orville, Chariton 8, 1, p. 599).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

not given

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* οἰκοδομία, -ας, ἡ

(< οἰκοδομέω),

the act of building: metaph., I Ti 1:4 (BE for οἰκοδομία, q.v.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

οἰκοδομία. For οἰκοδομία in its literal sense of ‘‘ building,” cf. ΟΟ 75 $4310 (ii/B.c.) τὸ ἴσον εἰσφί ερ]έτωσαν εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομίαν. and Cagnat 1V. 66114 (Acmonia—a.D. 85) ὅπως μηδὲν τοῦ μνημείου τούτου ἢ τῶν περὶ [αὐ]τὸ φυτειῶν ἢ οἰκοδομιῶν ἐλασσωθῇ KTA. The adj. occurs in Sy// 932 (= 5880) 55 (A.D. 202) ἐν τοῖς οἰκοδομικοῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς λειτουργικοῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς χρηστικοῖς (see the editor's note). In the NT the subst. is read only in 1 Tim 14 De (οἰκονομίαν NAG ai.), where it is used metaphorically.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

οἰκοδομία (oikodomia) — edification. οἰκοδομ-ία, ἡ, ={-δόμησις}[Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. building, edifice, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

οἰκοδομία, -ας, ἡ (οἰκοδομέω), the act of building: metaphorically, 1Ti.1:4 (BE for οἰκοδομία, which see).† (AS)