Strong's Greek · G3625
οἰκουμένη
oikouménē
earth, world
Definition
land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire
Derivation
feminine participle present passive of G3611 (οἰκέω) (as noun, by implication, of G1093 (γῆ));
Appears 15 times in Scripture
“One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)”
“But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,”
“And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.””
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
“We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,”
“For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.””
“There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.””
“But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.””
“Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.”
“Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.”
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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).