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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 27
    New Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

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.

The other 17 New Testament books never use the word.

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.

οἶκοςoikoshouse: householdUses112
οἰκοδομήoikodomebuildingUses18
οἰκουμένηoikoumeneworldUses15
οἰκοδεσπότηςoikodespoteshouseholderUses12
οἰκονόμοςoikonomosmanagerUses10
οἰκονομίαoikonomiamanagementUses9
οἰκονομέωoikonomeoto manageUses1
οἰκοδεσποτέωoikodespoteoto manage a houseUses1
οἰκουρόςoikourosbusy at homeUsesnot recorded
οἰκοδομίαoikodomiaedificationUsesnot recorded

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.

    Matthew 7:24

    • 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.

    Matthew 7:26

    • 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.

    Matthew 16:18

    • 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.

    Matthew 21:33

    • 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’?

    Matthew 21:42

    • 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.

    Matthew 23:29

    • 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.’”

    Matthew 26:61

    • 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!”

    Matthew 27:40

    • 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.

    Mark 12:1

    • ᾠκοδόμησενokodomesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: built
  • Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

    Mark 12:10

    • 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.’”

    Mark 14:58

    • 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,

    Mark 15:29

    • 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.

    Luke 4:29

    • 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.

    Luke 6:48

    • 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!”

    Luke 6:49

    • οἰκοδομήσαντιoikodomesantiverb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: having built
  • for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”

    Luke 7:5

    • 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.

    Luke 11:47

    • 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.

    Luke 11:48

    • 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.

    Luke 12:18

    • 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?

    Luke 14:28

    • οἰκοδομῆσαιoikodomesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to build
  • saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

    Luke 14:30

    • 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.

    Luke 17:28

    • 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’?

    Luke 20:17

    • 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?”

    John 2:20

    • οἰκοδομήθηoikodometheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was built

Acts

four uses
  • But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

    Acts 7:47

    • 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?

    Acts 7:49

    • 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.

    Acts 9:31

    • 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.

    Acts 20:32

    • 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.

    Romans 15:20

    • 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.

    1 Corinthians 8:1

    • 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?

    1 Corinthians 8:10

    • 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.

    1 Corinthians 10:23

    • 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.

    1 Corinthians 14:4

    • 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.

    1 Corinthians 14:17

    • 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.

    Galatians 2:18

    • 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.

    1 Thessalonians 5:11

    • 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.

    1 Peter 2:5

    • 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,”

    1 Peter 2:7

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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