οἰκέω
oikéō · G3611 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to live, to dwell
To live or dwell in a place
Examples1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
1 Corinthians 7:13 And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.
1 Timothy 6:16 who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
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to be in, to live in, to dwell in, to reside in
To remain in a place defined psychologically or spiritually
ExamplesRomans 7:18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
Romans 7:20 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- πνεῦμαspirit 3
- Not stated (participle) 3
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- ἀγαθόςgood 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐνin+ ἐγώI, we 3
- ἐνin+ σύyou 3
- μετάwith, after+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἴδωto know 2
- συνευδοκέωto agree to 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- יָשַׁב yâshab · H3427 · to sit down, to be seated, to make sit
- Greek οἰκέω emphasizes dwelling/residing with focus on house-occupation (οἶκος-derived), while Hebrew יָשַׁב is the general term for sitting/dwelling/inhabiting with broader application to any settled presence; both denote residence/inhabitation and frequently translate one another in LXX alignment data.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To live, to dwell85.67
- Describing the ongoing struggle with sin, Romans 7:18 states “I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh,” where “dwell” renders this verb of something residing or being present within.
- To be in, to live in, to dwell in, to reside in85.73
- Describing believers as God's temple, 1 Corinthians 3:16 states “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” where “dwells” renders this same verb, here of the Spirit residing within a person rather than a household relationship.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἴκῳ; (οἶκος); from Homer down; the Sept. for יָשַׁב, a few times for שָׁכַן; Latinhabito…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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