οἰκοδομή

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A = -δόμησις, -δομία, PCair.Zen.499.93 (iii B. C.), prov. Lacon. ap. Suid. s.v. ἵππους, LXX 1 Ch.26.27, PGrenf.1.21.17 (ii B.C.), OGI655.2 (i B.C.), D.S.1.46, Eratosth. ap. Str.16.1.15, Str.5.2.5, Plu.Cam.32 : condemned by Phryn.394 : earlier examples, as Arist.EN1137b30 (v.l.), Thphr. HP3.8.5 codd., are dub.    II = sq., Ev.Matt.24.1, Plu.Luc.39, CIG 4449 (Beroea), al. : metaph., IEp.Cor.3.9.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

οἰκοδομή: ἡ, μεταγενέστ. τύπος ἀντὶ οἰκοδόμησις, -δομία, παροιμία Λακων. παρὰ Σουΐδ. ἐν λ. ἵππους (;) Διόδ. 1. 46, Στράβ., κ. ἀλλ., πρβλ. Λοβεκ. σημ. εἰς Φρύνιχ. σελ 488· ἀρχαιότερα παραδείγματα, ὡς Ἀριστ. Ἠθ. Νικ. 5. 10, 7, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Ἱστ. 3. 8, 5, εἶναι ἀμφίβολ. ΙΙ. = οἰκοδόμημα, Πλουτ. Λούκουλλ. 39, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 4449, κ. ἀλλ., Καιν. Διαθ., κλ.

English (Strong)

feminine (abstract) of a compound of οἶκος and the base of δῶμα; architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation: building, edify(-ication, -ing).

English (Thayer)

οἰκοδομῆς, ἡ (οἶκος, and δέμω to build), a later Greek word, condemned by Phryn., yet used by Aristotle, Theophrastus, (but both these thought to be doubtful)), Diodorus (1,46), Philo (vit. Moys. i. § 40; de monarch. ii. § 2), Josephus, Plutarch, the Sept., and many others, for οἰκοδόμημα and οἰκοδόμησις; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 481ff, cf. p. 421; (Winer's Grammar, 24);
1. (the act of) building, building up, equivalent to τό οἰκοδομεῖν; as, τῶν τειχέων, τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ, Wisdom of Solomon , piety, holiness, happiness" (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'. (cf. Winer's Grammar, 35 (34))): ὑμῶν, ἑαυτοῦ (Tdf. αὐτοῦ), τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τῆς ἐκκλησίας, τό ὀικοδομουν, what contributes to edification, or augments Wisdom of Solomon , etc. λαλεῖν, λαβεῖν, οἰκοδομήν, οἰκοδόμημα, a building (i. e. thing built, edifice): τοῦ ἱεροῦ, a body of Christians, a Christian church (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'.), πᾶς, I:1c.); with a genitive of the owner or occupant, Θεοῦ, 1 Corinthians 3:9.