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Strong G3609οἰκεῖος

of one’s household

Transliteration
oikeios
Pronunciation
oy-ki'-os
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G3624; domestic that is (as noun) a relative adherent: - (those) of the (his own) house (-hold).

Detailed definition

οἰκεῖος, -α, -ον
(οἶκος), [in LXX for דּוֹד, שְׁאֵר, etc.; in Isa.58:7, οἰ. τοῦ σπέρματος for בָּשָׂר;]
in or of the house (opposite to ξένος, ἀλλότριος);
__(a) of things; τὰ οἰ., household affairs or goods;
__(b) of persons, of the same family or kin; as subst., οἱ οἰ., kinsmen: 1Ti.5:8; with genitive of person(s), of the family of: metaphorically, τ. θεον, Eph.2:19; τ. πίστεως (Lft., in l), Gal.6:10.†
SYN,: συγγενής, ἴδιος (see Cremer, 446; Deiss., BS, 123)
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3609 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • household2
  • house1

First verses

  1. Galatians 6:10
    As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
  2. Ephesians 2:19
    Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
  3. 1 Timothy 5:8
    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
οἰκεῖος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 634)]; Ionic dialect οἰκήϊος, η, ον: in or of the house, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, δούρατ᾽ ἀμάξης οἰκήϊα θέσθαι “Op.” 457; λέβης 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 1; κῆρυξ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 757)]; of or for household affairs, domestic (for οἰκηΐη, see at {οἰκία} II), τὰ οἰ. household affairs, property, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 661; τὰ οἰ. ἀγαθά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.18)]; τὰ οἰ. τὰ αὑτοῦ his household goods, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.41)]; opposed to πολιτικά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40)]; opposed to τὰ τῆς πόλεως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23b.)]
2 Astrology texts, οἰ. ζῴδια domiciliary signs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 37.21, +others)]
II of persons, of the same household, family, or kin, related, ὥς οἱ ἐόντες οἰκήϊοι as being akin to him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.65)]; οἰκεῖον οὕτως οὐδὲν.. ὡς ἀνήρ τε καὶ γυνή so closely akin, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 647)]; ἀνὴρ οἰ. kinsman, relative, near friend, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108)]; οἱ οἰ. kinsmen, opposed to οἱ ἀλλότριοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.15, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.51)]; opposed to ὀθνεῖοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 316c)]; οἱ ἑωυτοῦ οἰκηϊότατοι his own nearest kinsmen, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.65, compare 5.5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.288)]; of the tie itself, κατὰ τὸ οἰ. Ἀτρεῖ because of his relationship to Atreus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.9.)]
II.2 friendly, εἴχομέν ποτε.. τὸν τόπον τοῦτον οἰ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.4; οὓς ἂν ἡγήσαιτο -οτάτους τε καὶ ἑταιροτάτους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89e.)]
III of things. belonging to one's house or family, one's own (defined as ὅταν ἐφ᾽ αὑτῷ ᾖ ἀπαλλοτριῶσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a21), οἰ. ἄρουραι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.19; σταθμοῖς ἐν οἰκείοισι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 398)]; γῆ, χθών, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 859, “Ant.” 1203)]; οἰκεῖον, ἢ 'ξ ἄλλου τινό; born in the house, or.. ? [Refs ([prev. author] “OT” 1162)]; αἱ οἰ. πόλεις their own cities, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.2)]; ἡ οἰ. (i.e. γῆ), Ionic dialect ἡ οἰκηΐη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.64)]; [ἀναθήματα] οἰκήϊα his own property, [Refs ([prev. work] 92)]; πόλεμοι οἰ. wars in one's own country, of the Helot war in Laconia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.118, compare 4.64; σῖτος οἰ. καὶ οὐκ ἐπακτός)]homegrown, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.20.)]
III.2 ={ἴδιος}, one's own, personal, private, οἰκείων κερδέων εἵνεκα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 46; ἐὼν ἐν κακῷ οἰκηΐῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.45, compare 153, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.13; αἱ χεῖρες -ότεραι τοῦ σιδήρου [prev. author] 4.3.3)]; μηδὲν -οτέρᾳ τῇ ἀπολαύσει with enjoyment not more our own, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.38, compare 7.70; ἀλλοτρίας γῆς πέρι οἰ. κίνδυνον ἔχειν [prev. author] 3.13)]; οἰ. ξύνεσις mother wit, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.138)]; πρὸς οἰκείας χερός by his own hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1176, etc.; for 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1220, see at {βορά}.)]
III.2.b in Stoic Philos., endeared by nature to all animals, including man, τὸ πρῶτον οἰ. what is earliest endeared, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.43, 4th c.AD(?): Hierocles Facetiarum Scriptor p.7A.)]
IV proper to a thing, fitting, suitable, οὔτε.. καλὸν οὐδὲν [οὐδ᾽] οἰκήϊον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.81, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.59.)]
IV.2 with dative of things, belonging to, conformable to the nature of a thing, προοίμιον οἰ. ἑκάστῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 772e, compare “R.” 468d, +others, and frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, as “EN” 1098a29: also with _genitive_, τὰ αὐτῶν οἰ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96d; οἰ. τῆς διαλεκτικῆς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 101b2, compare “EN” 1096b31, “Rh.” 1360a22; οἰ. πρός τι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.105.1.)]
IV.2.b of persons, with genitive, a student of.., σοφίας [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.5)]; addicted to, καινοτομίας [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 30.176.)]
IV.3 proper, fit, οἰ. κατάγελως fit subject for ridicule, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 160)]; οἰ. ὄνομα a word in its proper, literal sense, opposed to metaphor, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1404b35.)]
B adverb οἰκείως has the same senses as the adjective, οἰ φέρε bear it like your own affair, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 197)]; διαλέγεσθαι οἰ. τινί converse familiarly with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.57; οἰ. χρῆσθαί τινι)]to be on familiar terms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.16; οἰ. διακεῖσθαί τινι [prev. author] “An.” 7.5.16; πρός τι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 13.1.2; οἰ. δέχεσθαί τινας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.215; οἰ. ἔχειν τινί [prev. author] 4.4, etc.)]: comparative -ότερον[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.49)]; -οτέρως [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 7a16)]: superlative -ότατα[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.106.4.)]
B.II properly, naturally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1118, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 2.17)]; opposed to ἀλλοτρίως, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.14U.)]
B.II.2 affectionately, dutifully, ἔθαψε, περιέστειλεν οἰ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 325.12, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60.)]
B.II.3 literally, actually, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “φιλόσοφος ἱστορία - Doxographi Graeci” 39 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]
B.II.4 Astrology texts, οἰ. σχηματίζεσθαι, of a planet, to be in its domicile, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 58.27, +others)]