UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: οἰκία; -ας

Related lemmas: οἰκέω

Sense 1: house, home, dwelling, residence

Semantic entry: 7.3

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Buildings

Definition: a building or place where one dwells

Notes: The size of an οἰκία[a] or of an οἶκος[a] (7.2: οἶκος) may differ greatly. For example, the house referred to in RV LUK 7:10 · LV LUK 7:10 · Read together LUK 7:10 would no doubt have been relatively elaborate, and in RV MAT 11:8 · LV MAT 11:8 · Read together MAT 11:8 οἶκος[a] refers to the palace in which Herod lived. In a number of languages it is important to distinguish clearly between various types of dwellings depending upon their size and presumed importance. Accordingly, in rendering οἰκία[a] or οἶκος[a] it is necessary to use a number of different terms roughly equivalent to the English series ‘cottage,’ ‘house,’ ‘official residence,’ ‘palace,’ ‘temple,’ etc.|In a number of languages one must distinguish carefully between a house and a home. A term meaning ‘house’ would be used in referring to any dwelling as a construction, while a term meaning ‘home’ would be used in referring to the more or less permanent dwelling of a particular person. In RV MRK 2:1 · LV MRK 2:1 · Read together MRK 2:1, for example, it is significant to indicate that Jesus was dwelling in the house through the roof of which the paralyzed man was let down.

Further resources: realia:3.1

MAT 2:11: RV MAT 2:11 · LV MAT 2:11 · Read together MAT 2:11

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OET-RV MAT 2:11

11 As they entered the house, they saw the child with his mother Maria (Mary; Heb. Miryam; Grk. Maria /Mariam). They bowed low and worshipped him, then they opened their chests and presented gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

OET-LV MAT 2:11

11 And having _come into the house, they _saw the little _child with Maria/(Miryām) the mother of _him, and having _fallen, they _prostrated before _him, and having _opened _up the treasures of _them, they _offered gifts to _him:
gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

MAT 5:15: RV MAT 5:15 · LV MAT 5:15 · Read together MAT 5:15

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OET-RV MAT 5:15

15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket—you put it on a lampstand and it lightens up the house.

OET-LV MAT 5:15

15 And _not they _are _lighting a_lamp and are _putting it under the a_basket, but on the lampstand, and it _is _shining for _all the ones in the house.

All 74 recorded passages for this sense

JHN: RV JHN 11:31 · RV JHN 12:3 · RV JHN 14:2 · LV JHN 11:31 · LV JHN 12:3 · LV JHN 14:2 · Read together JHN 11:31 · Read together JHN 12:3 · Read together JHN 14:2

CO1: RV CO1 11:22 · LV CO1 11:22 · Read together CO1 11:22

CO2: RV CO2 5:1 · LV CO2 5:1 · Read together CO2 5:1

TI1: RV TI1 5:13 · LV TI1 5:13 · Read together TI1 5:13

TI2: RV TI2 2:20 · RV TI2 3:6 · LV TI2 2:20 · LV TI2 3:6 · Read together TI2 2:20 · Read together TI2 3:6

JN2: RV JN2 1:10 · LV JN2 1:10 · Read together JN2 1:10

Sense 2: family, household

Semantic entry: 10.8

Semantic domains: Kinship Terms

Subdomains: Groups and Members of Groups of Persons Regarded as Related by Blood but without Special Reference to Successive Generations

Definition: the family consisting of those related by blood and marriage, as well as slaves and servants, living in the same house or homestead

Notes: In a number of languages the equivalent of οἶκος[b] or οἰκία[b] would be ‘those who live together’ or ‘those who have the same fence’ (this being a reference to a group of huts surrounded by a fence and thus constituting a single so-called ‘family unit’).

MAT 12:25: RV MAT 12:25 · LV MAT 12:25 · Read together MAT 12:25

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OET-RV MAT 12:25