Greek noun (feminine) · G3625
οἰκουμένη
oikoumeneoy-kou-men'-ay
world
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: oikouménē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3625is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3625
land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire
The King James renders it: earth, world.
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
oikoumene is rendered "world". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 24:14οἰκουμένῃ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- world9
- earth2
- inhabited2
- inhabited world1
- world —1
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 |
| οἰκοδομέω | oikodomeo | to build | Uses40 |
| οἰκοδομή | oikodome | building | Uses18 |
| 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 |
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- οἰκουμένην8
- οἰκουμένης4
- οἰκουμένῃ2
- οἰκουμένη1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular8N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
one use
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- οἰκουμένῃoikoumenenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: earth
Luke
three uses
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
- οἰκουμένηςoikoumenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: world
Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
- οἰκουμένῃoikoumenenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: earth
Acts
five uses
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world —
But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”
- οἰκουμένηoikoumenenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: world
We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
Romans
one use
But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- οἰκουμένηςoikoumenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: world
Hebrews
two uses
And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: world
Revelation
three uses
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
- οἰκουμένηςoikoumenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inhabited world
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- οἰκουμένηνoikoumenennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: inhabited
These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
- οἰκουμένηςoikoumenesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: inhabited
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 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.