Strong's Greek · G3624

οἶκος

oîkos

home, house(-hold), temple

Definition

a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively)

Derivation

of uncertain affinity;

Appears 113 times in Scripture

Matthew 15:24

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 9:7

And the man got up and went home.

Matthew 12:4

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.

Mark 5:38

When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.

Matthew 21:13

And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Matthew 11:8

Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.

Matthew 9:6

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” Then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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