Gloss
to build, build up, rebuild, a physical edifice; by extension: to edify, strengthen, develop another person's life through acts and words of love and encouragement
Forms of the word
Dictionary
οἰκοδομέω
Greek transliteration
oikodomeō
Simplified transliteration
oikodomeo
Principal Parts
(ᾠκοδόμουν), οἰκοδομήσω, ὠ/κοδόμησα, -, ᾠκοδόμημαι <χστψλε:ΕνγλισηΙνΠΠ>ορ<χστψλε:> ὠ/κοδόμημαι, ὠ/jκοδομήθ
Numbers
Strong's number
3618
GK Number
3868
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
40
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-1d(2a)
Definition
pluperfect, ῳκοδόμητο (3 sg), to build a house; to build, Mt. 7:24; to repair, embellish, and amplify a building, Mt. 23:29; to construct, establish, Mt. 16:18; met. to contribute to advancement in religious knowledge, to edify, 1 Cor. 14:4, 17; to advance a person's spiritual condition, to edify, 1 Cor. 8:1; pass. to make spiritual advancement, be edified, Acts 9:31; to advance in presumption, 1 Cor. 8:10
Greek-English Concordance for οἰκοδομέω
| Matthew 7:24 | “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine, and does them, is like the wise man, who built (ōkodomēsen | ᾠκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) his house upon rock. |
| Matthew 7:26 | But everyone who hears these words of mine, and does not do them, will be like the foolish man who built (ōkodomēsen | ᾠκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) his house on sand. |
| Matthew 16:18 | And I say to you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. |
| Matthew 21:33 | “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built (ōkodomēsen | ᾠκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away on a journey. |
| Matthew 21:42 | Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone that the builders (oikodomountes | οἰκοδομοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’? |
| Matthew 23:29 | “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build (oikodomeite | οἰκοδομεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, |
| Matthew 26:61 | and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild (oikodomēsai | οἰκοδομῆσαι | aor act inf ) it in three days.’” |
| Matthew 27:40 | and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild (oikodomōn | οἰκοδομῶν | pres act ptcp voc sg masc) it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!” |
| Mark 12:1 | And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it. He dug a pit for the winepress and built (ōkodomēsen | ᾠκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) a tower; then he leased it out to tenant farmers and went on a journey. |
| Mark 12:10 | Have you not even read this scripture: ‘The stone that the builders (oikodomountes | οἰκοδομοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) rejected has become the capstone; |
| Mark 14:58 | “We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) will (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) build (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) another not made with hands.’” |
| Mark 15:29 | And those passing by ridiculed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild (oikodomōn | οἰκοδομῶν | pres act ptcp voc sg masc) it in three days, |
| Luke 4:29 | They rose up, drove him out of the town, and took him to a cliff of the hill on which their town was built (ōkodomēto | ᾠκοδόμητο | pluperf pass ind 3 sg), so that they could cast him down. |
| Luke 6:48 | he is like a man building (oikodomounti | οἰκοδομοῦντι | pres act ptcp dat sg masc) a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on bedrock; when a flood arose, the river broke against that house but could not shake it, because it had (oikodomēsthai | οἰκοδομῆσθαι | perf pass inf ) been (oikodomēsthai | οἰκοδομῆσθαι | perf pass inf ) well built (oikodomēsthai | οἰκοδομῆσθαι | perf pass inf ). |
| Luke 6:49 | But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man building (oikodomēsanti | οἰκοδομήσαντι | aor act ptcp dat sg masc) a house on the ground without a foundation; when the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.” |
| Luke 7:5 | for he loves our nation and he built (ōkodomēsen | ᾠκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) the synagogue for us.” |
| Luke 11:47 | Woe to you! For you build (oikodomeite | οἰκοδομεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) memorials to the prophets, but your fathers killed them. |
| Luke 11:48 | So you are witnesses: you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because while they killed them, you build (oikodomeite | οἰκοδομεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) the memorials. |
| Luke 12:18 | Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and I (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) will (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) build (oikodomēsō | οἰκοδομήσω | fut act ind 1 sg) bigger ones; and I will store there all my grain and my goods. |
| Luke 14:28 | “For which of you, wanting to (oikodomēsai | οἰκοδομῆσαι | aor act inf ) build (oikodomēsai | οἰκοδομῆσαι | aor act inf ) a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, whether he has enough to bring it to completion; |
| Luke 14:30 | saying, ‘This man began to build (oikodomein | οἰκοδομεῖν | pres act inf ) and was not able to complete.’ |
| Luke 17:28 | Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building (ōkodomoun | ᾠκοδόμουν | imperf act ind 3 pl); |
| Luke 20:17 | But looking straight at them he said, “What then is this that is written: “The stone that the builders (oikodomountes | οἰκοδομοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) rejected — this one became the head of the corner’? |
| John 2:20 | Then the Jews said, “This temple has (oikodomēthē | οἰκοδομήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) been (oikodomēthē | οἰκοδομήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) under (oikodomēthē | οἰκοδομήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) construction (oikodomēthē | οἰκοδομήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) for forty-six years, and you can restore it in three days?” |
| Acts 7:47 | But it was Solomon who built (oikodomēsen | οἰκοδόμησεν | aor act ind 3 sg) a house for him. |
