Quick Definition
ἀνοικοδομέω v. I rebuild, build up, build
Strong's Definition
to rebuild
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G3618 (οἰκοδομέω);
KJV Usage: build again
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀν-οικο-δομέω, -@: fut. ἀνοικοδομήσω; to build again, (Vulg. reaedifico): Acts xv.16. ([Thue. 1,89, 3]; Diod. 11, 39; Plut. Them. 19; Cam. 31; Hdian. 8, 2, 12 [5 ed. Bekk.].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνοικοδομέω anoikodomeō 2x
to rebuild, Acts 15:16 (2x)*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν-οικο-δομέω, -ῶ,
[in LXX for בּנה, גּדר;]
to build again, rebuild (MM, VGT, s.v.): Ac 15:16.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνοικοδομέω. In P Lond 887? (iii/B.c.) (=III. p. 1) a complaint is lodged against a neighbour who has ‘‘ built ” (ἀνοικοδόμηκεν) a staircase in a mutual courtyard, and thereby caused some injury to the petitioner : cf. P Magd 2? (iii/8.c.) ἀνοικοδομήσαντος ἐν τῶι αὑτοῦ τόπωι ἱερόν KTA., and P Oxy IV. 70727 (c. A.D. 136) ἀνοικοδομῆσαι tpdxov ἐκ καινῆς ἐξ ὀϊπτῆς] πλίνθου ἐπὶ μέτροις ὡρισμένοις, ‘should build on a fixed scale a new wheel of baked brick” (Edd.). In P Petr II. 12 (135 (B.C. 241) kal ἀνοικοδομῆσαι βελτίους τῶν προῦπαρΧχόντων βωμῶν the meaning is ‘*vebuild”: cf. Sy// 22013 (iii/B.C ) kal τῶν τειχῶν τῶν ἐν τῆι νήσωι πεπτωκότων συνεπεμελήθη ὅπως ἀνοικοδομηθεῖ, and Chrest, I. g6viii4 5 ΄ ανοχὴ (A.D. 215) οἰκοδόμ(οις) y κατασπῶσι καὶ ἀνοικοδομίοῦσι), 7). II. 6811 (A.D. 14) οὖς καὶ ἀνοικοδόμησα ἐπὶ τῶι [apy ]α[(]ωι θεμελίωι. words. For a Christian use οἵ ἀ. see the interesting epitaph of the fourth-century bishop of Laodiceia, M. Julius Omission of augment is frequent in these olEugenius, who describes himself as during his episcopate πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκλησίαν ἀνοικοδο[μ]ήσας ἀπὸ θεμελίων (\V. M. Calder in Exp VII. vi. p. 387). aia ἄνοιξις occurs in the magical papyrus P Lond 46274 (=I. p. 73). In MGr it means “* springtime.” (iv/a.D.)
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀνοικοδομέω (anoikodomeō) — to rebuild. ἀνοικο-δομέω, build up, τὰ χείλεα τοῦ ποταμοῦ.. ἀνοικοδόμηδε πλίνθοισι[Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. wall up, λαύρας καιναῖς πλίνθοισιν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; πύλας uncertain reading in [Refs 1st c.BC+]
II. build again, rebuild, πόλιν καὶ τείχη[Refs 5th c.BC+]occupy again with buildings, [Refs 1st c.BC+]:—passive, metaphorically, to be exalted, [LXX]