Greek verb · G3618
οἰκοδομέω
oikodomeooy-kod-om-eh'-o
to build
40 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: oikodoméō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3618is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 27New Testament books
- 22spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3618
to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm
The King James renders it: (be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
oikodomeo is rendered "to build". It stands 40 times in the Greek text, across ten books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.
The first use
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24ᾠκοδόμησεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's forty uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- building7
- built5
- to build3
- edifies2
- I will build2
- you build2
- are being built up1
- being edified1
- build1
- builds up1
- do build up1
- edify1
and 13 more, 40 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἶκος | oikos | house: household | Uses112 |
| οἰκοδομή | oikodome | building | Uses18 |
| οἰκουμένη | oikoumene | world | Uses15 |
| οἰκοδεσπότης | oikodespotes | householder | Uses12 |
| οἰκονόμος | oikonomos | manager | Uses10 |
| οἰκονομία | oikonomia | management | Uses9 |
| οἰκονομέω | oikonomeo | to manage | Uses1 |
| οἰκοδεσποτέω | oikodespoteo | to manage a house | Uses1 |
| οἰκουρός | oikouros | busy at home | Usesnot recorded |
| οἰκοδομία | oikodomia | edification | Usesnot recorded |
The words it stands beside
All 40, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
22 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ᾠκοδόμησεν5
- οἰκοδομεῖτε4
- οἰκοδομοῦντες4
- οἰκοδομεῖ3
- οἰκοδομῆσαι3
- οἰκοδομήσω3
- οἰκοδομῶ2
- οἰκοδομῶν2
- οἰκοδομεῖ.¶1
- οἰκοδομεῖν1
- οἰκοδομεῖσθε1
- οἰκοδομεῖται.¶1
and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular6V-AAI-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-PAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural4V-PAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)3V-AAN
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular3V-FAI-1S
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural3V-PAI-2P
- verb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · masculine singular2V-PAP-VSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-AAP-DSM
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-FAI-2P
- verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FPI-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
Matthew
eight uses
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- οἰκοδομήσωoikodomesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will build
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he built
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
- οἰκοδομοῦντεςoikodomountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: building
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- οἰκοδομεῖτεoikodomeiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you build
and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- οἰκοδομῆσαιoikodomesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to rebuild it
and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
- οἰκοδομῶνoikodomonverb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: building
Mark
four uses
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- οἰκοδομοῦντεςoikodomountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: building
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
- οἰκοδομήσωoikodomesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will build
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
- οἰκοδομῶνoikodomonverb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: building
Luke
twelve uses
They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
- ᾠκοδόμητοokodometoverb · pluperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: had been built
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
- οἰκοδομοῦντιoikodomountiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: building
- οἰκοδομῆσθαιoikodomesthaiverb · perfect passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have been built
But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”
- οἰκοδομήσαντιoikodomesantiverb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: having built
for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
- ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- οἰκοδομεῖτεoikodomeiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you build
So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
- οἰκοδομεῖτεoikodomeiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: build
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
- οἰκοδομήσωoikodomesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will build
Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
- οἰκοδομῆσαιoikodomesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to build
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
- οἰκοδομεῖνoikodomeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to build
It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
- ᾠκοδόμουνokodomounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were building
But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
- οἰκοδομοῦντεςoikodomountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: building
John
one use
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
- οἰκοδομήθηoikodometheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was built
Acts
four uses
But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
- οἰκοδόμησενoikodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
- οἰκοδομήσετέoikodomeseteverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: will you build
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
- οἰκοδομουμένηoikodomoumeneverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: being edified
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
- οἰκοδομῆσαιoikodomesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to build
Romans
one use
In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
- οἰκοδομῶoikodomoverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may build
1 Corinthians
six uses
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- οἰκοδομεῖoikodomeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: builds up
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
- οἰκοδομηθήσεταιoikodomethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he will be encouraged
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- οἰκοδομεῖoikodomeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: edify
The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.
- οἰκοδομεῖoikodomeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: edifies
- οἰκοδομεῖ.¶oikodomeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: edifies
You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.
- οἰκοδομεῖται.¶oikodomeitaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is edified
Galatians
one use
If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
- οἰκοδομῶoikodomoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I build
1 Thessalonians
one use
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- οἰκοδομεῖτεoikodomeiteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do build up
1 Peter
two uses
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- οἰκοδομεῖσθεoikodomeistheverb · present passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: are being built up
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
- οἰκοδομοῦντεςoikodomountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: building
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
