οἰκία (oikía) names a house, home, dwelling, or household according to context. Its source denominators differ by one: BSB alignment yields 94 tokens spanning 85 verses and eleven books, whereas the morphology inventory reports 93.
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οἰκία (oikía) names a house, home, dwelling, or household according to context. Its source denominators differ by one: BSB alignment yields 94 tokens spanning 85 verses and eleven books, whereas the morphology inventory reports 93.
The BSB source-word alignment has 94 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include house (53), home (10), household (6), houses (5), a house (4).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 2:11. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (25), Matthew (25), Mark (18), Acts (12).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G3614 names a house, home, dwelling, or household according to context. Its source denominators differ by one: BSB alignment yields 94 tokens spanning 85 verses and eleven books, whereas the morphology inventory reports 93. Most occurrences identify ordinary places: people enter or leave a house, receive guests, meet indoors, own homes, or move from house to house.
Other clauses use the noun for the people or social unit associated with a home, as in John's report that an official's household believed, Paul's reference to Stephanas's household, and greetings from Caesar's household. Jesus uses house imagery in several distinct teachings. The rock-and-sand conclusion to the Sermon on the Mount compares hearing and doing His words with building a house on a foundation.
The divided-house saying answers the accusation that Jesus casts out demons by Satan. Warnings about devouring widows' houses concern exploitation, not architecture. John 14:2 speaks of the Father's house, while 2 Corinthians 5:1 uses tent, building, and house imagery in a difficult discussion of mortality and what is from God. The noun does not make every home a church, every household response uniform, or every architectural image a detailed doctrine.
First Timothy 3:4-5 uses the related G3624 rather than G3614, and Acts 16:34's whole-household wording is not a direct G3614 row in the governed table. Those texts must not be assigned to this identity. Household language also cannot authorize domination, concealment of abuse, or treating a household head as owner of other persons.
The governed witness has 94 rows in 85 verses. It ranges from ordinary buildings and homes to households, property, meeting places, parabolic houses, the Father's house, and figurative dwelling imagery.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Jesus compares the hearer who acts on His words to a prudent builder whose house withstands the storm because it was founded on rock. The parable's stated contrast is hearing with or without doing.
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Jesus uses the divided household alongside a divided kingdom and city to expose the incoherence of the accusation that He casts out demons by Satan.
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
Paul contrasts an earthly tent-house that may be dismantled with a building from God, an eternal house in heaven. The surrounding discussion of groaning, clothing, mortality, the Spirit, and being with the Lord must govern the imagery.
Don't you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing?
Paul contrasts private homes with the gathered church while rebuking humiliating meal practices. The distinction prevents private property from justifying contempt within the congregation.
And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.
Mary's house is the location where many are gathered in prayer. The narrative shows a home serving the community without turning every G3614 house into a church office or structure.
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
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Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Greek word. Physical dwelling structure itself, distinct from οἶκος which emphasizes the entire estate or household members.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 95 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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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.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 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.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
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Start with the noun's ordinary range. G3614 may indicate a physical house, a home, the people attached to it, property, or a dwelling image. That breadth explains why one occurrence can locate a meal or prayer gathering while another supports a parable or eschatological metaphor. Matthew 7 explicitly interprets the two builders through hearing and doing Jesus' words; the storm is not a diagnostic tool for judging every sufferer's faith.
Matthew 12 uses a divided household to answer a specific accusation about Jesus' works. First Corinthians 11 contrasts private homes with the church gathering to expose humiliation of those who have nothing. Acts 12 reports prayer in Mary's house without prescribing one universal church structure. John 14 and 2 Corinthians 5 use house language in theological settings whose surrounding discourse must control the imagery.
Keep direct identity boundaries clear: 1 Timothy 3:4-5 belongs to G3624, and Acts 16:34 does not carry a governed G3614 row. The household sense never grants one person ownership of another's conscience, body, labor, money, or safety.
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The BSB rows include accusative, dative, nominative, and genitive singular forms plus accusative and genitive plurals. G3614 overlaps in English translation with related G3624, but overlap does not permit occurrence transfer. The selected morphology artifact counts 93 forms; the governed BSB table counts 94 rows because their alignment denominators differ.
Biblical house language can name buildings, households, property, dynasties, and temples, but those senses belong to their own Hebrew or Greek terms and passages. New Testament authors may echo that wider imagery in John 14 or 2 Corinthians 5. G3614 alone does not establish a single house theology or transfer occurrences from related words.