What does κατοικητήριον (katoikētḗrion) mean in the Bible?
κατοικητήριον (katoikētḗrion) is a Greek word meaning "a dwelling-place".
Greek · G2732
κατοικητήριον
A dwelling-place
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κατοικητήριονG2732
Pronunciationkatoikētḗrion
What does κατοικητήριον (katoikētḗrion) mean in the Bible?
κατοικητήριον (katoikētḗrion) is a Greek word meaning "a dwelling-place".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2732?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a dwelling place (1), a lair (1).
Where does κατοικητήριον (katoikētḗrion) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Ephesians 2:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (1), Revelation (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita dwelling place1×Ephesians 2:22
a lair1×Revelation 18:2
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First aligned rowEphesians 2:22
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
Ephesians1Revelation1
Source forms
κατοικητήριον2xkatoikētērionEphesians 2:22, Revelation 18:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular1xEphesians 2:22
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular1xRevelation 18:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. a dwelling-place
Strong'sG2732
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a dwelling-place
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Ephesians 2:22Noun Accusative Singular Neuter
κατοικητήριονkatoikhthrion
a habitation, dwelling-place
Read verseRevelation 18:2Noun Nominative Singular Neuter
κατοικητήριονkatoikhthrion
a habitation, dwelling-place
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · NeuterRev 18:21×
Accusative · Singular · NeuterEph 2:221×
Word Origins
κατοικητήριον is built from this root: