Bible word study

Oikos (Strong’s G3624): Meaning in the Bible

Oikos (οἶκος) is the Greek word numbered G3624 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively). In the King James Bible it is translated home, house(-hold), temple..

• Original wordοἶκος
• Transliterationoîkos
• Pronunciationoy'-kos
• Strong’s numberG3624
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of uncertain affinity;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Oikos appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Oikos (G3624) stands behind 118 English renderings in 106 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (36), Acts (24), Mark (13).

How the King James Bible renders Oikos, by count

• house89 of 118 (75 percent)
• the house6 of 118 (5 percent)
• home5 of 118 (4 percent)
• houses5 of 118 (4 percent)
• household3 of 118 (3 percent)
• a house2 of 118 (2 percent)

Three places to read Oikos

• Matthew 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
• Luke 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
• Acts 11:12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:

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 Oikos 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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