Bible word study

Oikia (Strong’s G3614): Meaning in the Bible

Oikia (οἰκία) is the Greek word numbered G3614 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication, a family (especially domestics). In the King James Bible it is translated home, house(-hold)..

• Original wordοἰκία
• Transliterationoikía
• Pronunciationoy-kee'-ah
• Strong’s numberG3614
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3624;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Oikia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Oikia (G3614) stands behind 96 English renderings in 85 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (27), Luke (24), Mark (19).

How the King James Bible renders Oikia, by count

• house70 of 96 (73 percent)
• houses8 of 96 (8 percent)
• the house8 of 96 (8 percent)
• an house3 of 96 (3 percent)
• of the house2 of 96 (2 percent)
• a house1 of 96 (1 percent)

Three places to read Oikia

• Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
• Mark 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
• Luke 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Oikia in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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