What does οἶκος · θεός mean in the Bible?
οἶκος · θεός is a Greek phrase meaning "household or house of God".
Greek · G3624, G2316
οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ
House: home · God
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οἶκος G3624 house: home
Pronunciation oîkos
Physical dwelling expands metonymically to household, family, lineage, and the Church as God's spiritual household.
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θεός G2316 God
Pronunciation theós
The definite article marks God as the one true God; anarthrous form emphasizes His divine nature or character.
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What does οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ (oikos tou theou) mean in the Bible?
οἶκος · θεός is a Greek phrase meaning "household or house of God".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G3624, G2316?
G3624, G2316 is connected to 112 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. household or house of God
Source Gloss
household or house of God
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 8 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 patterns 8 Aligned forms 112 Case pattern Accusative (61) Number pattern Singular (106)
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 21:13 · Matt 23:38 · Mark 11:17 · Luke 11:17 · Luke 13:35 · Luke 14:23 · Luke 19:46 · Acts 2:36 · Acts 11:14 · Acts 16:15 · Acts 16:31 · Heb 3:4 · Heb 3:6 · 1 Pet 2:5 17×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Matt 10:6 · Matt 15:24 · Luke 1:27 · Luke 2:4 · Luke 11:51 · John 2:17 · Acts 19:16 · 1 Tim 3:4 · 1 Tim 3:5 · Heb 3:3 · Heb 11:7 · 1 Pet 4:17 12×
Genitive · Plural · Masculine 1 Tim 3:12 1×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Mark 2:1 · Luke 1:69 · Luke 10:5 · Luke 12:52 · Luke 19:5 · Luke 19:9 · John 11:20 · Acts 7:20 · Acts 10:2 · Acts 10:30 · Acts 11:13 · Acts 18:8 · 1 Cor 11:34 · 1 Cor 14:35 · 1 Tim 3:15 · 2 Tim 1:16 19×
Dative · Plural · Masculine Matt 11:8 1×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Matt 9:6 · Matt 9:7 · Matt 12:4 · Matt 12:44 · Mark 2:11 · Mark 2:26 · Mark 3:20 · Mark 5:19 · Mark 5:38 · Mark 7:17 · Mark 7:30 · Mark 8:3 · Mark 8:26 · Mark 9:28 · Luke 1:23 · Luke 1:33 57×
Accusative · Plural · Masculine Luke 16:4 · Acts 8:3 · Acts 20:20 · Titus 1:11 4×
Vocative · Singular · Masculine Acts 7:42 1×
Word Origins
οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ is of uncertain origin - no further derivation.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain