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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[house]], not only of [[built]] [[house]]s, but of any [[dwelling place]], as that of [[Achilles]] at [[Troy]] (v. [[κλισία]]), <span class="bibl">Il.24.471</span>,<span class="bibl">572</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>65</span>; of the Cyclops' [[cave]], <span class="bibl">Od.9.478</span>; of a [[tent]], <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ge.</span>31.33</span>; [[οἶκον ἱκάνεται]] = is coming [[home]], <span class="bibl">Od.23.7</span>; εἰς or ἐς οἶκον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>459</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>240</span>; πρὸς οἶκον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>867</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1491</span>, etc.; κατ' οἶκον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>929</span>, etc.; κατ' οἶκον ἐν δόμοις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>689</span>; [[οἱ κατ' οἶκον]] ib.<span class="bibl">934</span>; αἱ κατ' οἶκον κακοπραγίαι <span class="bibl">Th.2.60</span>; τἂν οἴκῳ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>579</span>; ἐν οἴκῳ καθεύδειν <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.1.4</span>,8; οἱ ἐν οἴκῳ <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>93.10</span> (iii B.C.); [[ἐξ οἴκου ἀποδημεῖν]] ib.<span class="bibl">44.23</span> (iii B.C.); [[ἐπ' οἴκου ἀποχωρῆσαι]], [[go homewards]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.87</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">30</span>, <span class="bibl">108</span>,<span class="bibl">2.31</span>, etc.; [[ἀπ' οἴκου]] = [[from home]], <span class="bibl">Id.1.99</span>, etc.; cf. [[οἰκία]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> freq. omitted after εἰς or [[ἐν]], v. εἰς <span class="bibl">1.4c</span>, ἐν A.1.2. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[room]], [[chamber]], <span class="bibl">Od.1.356</span>, <span class="bibl">19.514</span>,<span class="bibl">598</span>; οἶ. θερμός Dsc.2.164; [[dining-hall]], ἑπτάκλινος οἶ. Phryn. Com.66, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>2.18</span>; [[room]] in a [[temple]], <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).110<span class="title">A</span>27, al.(Epid., pl.): pl. [[οἶκοι]] freq., = [[a single house]], <span class="bibl">Od.24.417</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>230</span>,<span class="bibl">524</span>, etc.; [[κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων]] [[domestic]] [[grief]]s, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1554</span> (anap.); ἀπ' οἴκων <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>762</span>; [[ἐς οἴκους]] or [[πρὸς οἴκους]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>311</span>,<span class="bibl">383</span>; [[κατ' οἴκους]] = [[at home]], [[within]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.79</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>65</span>, <span class="bibl">Mnesim.4.52</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of public buildings, [[meeting house]], [[hall]], οἶ. Κηρύκων <span class="title">IG</span>22.1672.24; [[Δεκελειῶν]] ib. 1237.33; of treasuries at Delos, <span class="title">JHS</span>25.310, al., cf. Hsch. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[θησαυρός]]; [[ἐγκριτήριοι οἶκοι]], v. [[ἐγκριτήριος]]; [[temple]], IG 4.1580 (Aegina), <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.143</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1373</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>600</span>; οἶ. τεμένιος ἱερός <span class="title">SIG</span>987.3, cf. 25 (Chios, iv B.C.); ἐν τῷ οἴ. τοῦ Ἄμμωνος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>79.4</span> (ii B.C.); ὁ οἶ. [τοῦ θεοῦ] <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>21.13</span>, al.; of a funerary monument, <span class="title">BCH</span>2.610 (Cibyra), 18.11 (Magnesia); [[ἀΐδιος|ἀΐδιοι]] οἴκοι., i.e. [[tomb]]s, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.51</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[cage]] for birds, <span class="bibl">Id.13.82</span> (s.v.l., [[οἰκίσκῳ]] Valck.); [[beehive]], <span class="bibl">Gp.15.2.22</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> Astrol., [[domicile]] of a planet, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>1.98r</span>.<span class="bibl">12</span>, al.(i/ii A.D.), <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>12.7</span>, <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.7.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Man.2.141</span>, <span class="bibl">Eust.162.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> one's [[household]] [[goods]], [[substance]] (cf. [[οἴκοθεν]] <span class="bibl">2</span>), οἶ. ἐμὸς διόλωλε <span class="bibl">Od.2.64</span>; ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶ. <span class="bibl">4.318</span>; καὶ οἶ. καὶ κλῆρος ἀκήρατος <span class="bibl">Il.15.498</span>; οἶκον δέ κ' ἐγὼ καὶ κτήματα δοίην <span class="bibl">Od.7.314</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.53</span>, <span class="bibl">7.224</span>, etc.: in Att. law, [[estate]], [[inheritance]], οἶκον κατασχεῖν τινος <span class="bibl">And.4.15</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.12.93</span>, <span class="bibl">Is.5.15</span>, <span class="bibl">D.27.4</span>, etc.; οἶ. πέντε ταλάντων <span class="bibl">Is.7.42</span>; cf. [[οἰκία]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> a reigning [[house]], οἶ. ὁ βασιλέος <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.31</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">6.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Th. 1.137</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.3.41</span>; Ἀγαμεμνονίων οἴκων ὄλεθρον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>862</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>594</span>(lyr.); also of any [[family]], <span class="bibl">Is.10.4</span>, <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ge.</span>7.1</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.85</span>; [[οἶκος Σεβαστός]], = [[domus Augusta]], <span class="bibl">Ph.2.520</span>; οὐδενὸς οἴκου δεύτερον γενόμενον <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).84.32 (Epid., i A.D.); τοὺς πρώτους τᾶς πόλιος οἴκους ib.86.15(ibid., i A.D.). (Orig. [[ϝοῖκος]], cf. [[ϝοίκω]], [[οἰκία]]: cf. Skt. veśás, viś- '[[house]]', Lat. [[vicus]], [[vicinus]], etc.)</span>

|astxt=[[οἶκος]], -οῦ, ὁ, [in [[LXX]] [[chiefly]] for בַּיִת, [[also]] for אֹהֶל,הֵכָל, etc.;] <br /><b class="num">1.</b>[[prop]]., a [[house]], [[dwelling]]: Ac 2:2 19:16; c. gen. poss., Mt 9:6, 7 Mk 2:11, Lk 1:23, al.; c. gen. attrib., ἐμπορίου, Jo 2:16; προσευχῆς, Mt 21:13, al.; of a [[sanctuary]] (Hdt., Eur.): οἶ. τ. θεοῦ, of the tabernacle, Mt 12:4, al.; the [[temple]], Mt 21:13, al.; metaph. of a [[city]]: Mt 23:38, Lk 13:35; of the [[body]], Mt 12:44, Lk 11:24; of Christians, I Pe 2:5; ἐν οἴ (M, Pr., 81f.), at [[home]], Mk 2:1, I Co 11:34 14:35; so κατ᾽ οἶκον, Ac 2:46 5:42; οἱ εἰς (= οἱ ἐν; [[vide supra|v.s.]] εἰς) τ. οἶ., Lk 7:10 15:6; κατ᾽οἴκους, [[from]] [[house]] to [[house]], Ac 8:3 20:20; εἰς (κατ᾽) οἶκον, c. gen. (Bl., §46, 9), Mk 8:3, Lk 14:1, Ro 16:5, al. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>By meton., a [[house]], [[household]], [[family]]: Lk 10:5, Ac 7:10, I Co 1:16, I Ti 3:4, 5 al.; of the Church, ὁ οἶ. τ. θεοῦ, I Ti 3:15, He 3:2, I Pe 4:17; of descendants, οἶ Ἰσραήλ (Δαυείδ, Ἰακώβ; Bl, §47, 9), Mt 10:6, Lk 1:27, 33 al. (cf. Ex 6:14, I Ki 2:30, al.). SYN.: [[vide supra|v.s.]] [[οἰκία]].

|txtha=οἴκου, ὁ (cf. Latin vicus, English [[ending]] -wich; [[Curtius]], § 95), from Homer down; the Sept. in [[numberless]] places for בַּיִת, [[also]] for הֵיכַל, a [[palace]], אֹהֶל, a [[tent]], etc.;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[house]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[strictly]], an [[inhabited]] [[house]] (differing [[thus]] from [[δόμος]] the [[building]]): τίνος, ἔρχεσθαι εἰς οἶκον, to [[come]] [[into]] a [[house]] (domurn venire), εἰς [[τόν]] οἶκον, [[into]] the (i. e. his or [[their]]) [[house]], [[home]], ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ, in the (her) [[house]], ἐν οἴκῳ, at [[home]], οἱ εἰς [[τόν]] οἶκον([[see]] εἰς, C. 2), κατ' οἶκον, opposed to ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, in a [[household]] [[assembly]], in [[private]] (R. V. at [[home]]; [[see]] [[κατά]], II:1d.), κατ' οἴκους, opposed to [[δημοσίᾳ]], in [[private]] houses (A. V. from [[house]] to [[house]]; [[see]] [[κατά]], II:3a.), [[κατά]] [[τούς]] οἴκους εἰσπορευόμενος, entering [[house]] [[after]] [[house]], ἡ κατ' οἶκον τίνος [[ἐκκλησία]], [[see]] [[ἐκκλησία]], 4b. aa.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[any]] [[building]] [[whatever]]: ἐμπορίου, προσευχῆς, τοῦ βασιλέως, τοῦ ἀρχιερέως, the [[palace]] of etc., T Tr WH [[οἰκία]]); τοῦ Θεοῦ, the [[house]] [[where]] God [[was]] regarded as [[present]] — of the tabernacle, [[οἶκος]] [[ἅγιος]] Θεοῦ, of [[heaven]], [[οἶκος]] [[πνευματικός]], [[any]] [[dwelling]]-[[place]]: of the [[human]] [[body]] as the [[abode]] of demons [[that]] [[possess]] it, the [[place]] [[where]] [[one]] has [[fixed]] his [[residence]], [[one]]'s [[settled]] [[abode]], [[domicile]]: [[οἶκος]] [[ὑμῶν]], of the [[city]] of [[Jerusalem]], the inmates of a [[house]], [[all]] the persons forming [[one]] [[family]], a [[household]]: [[ἐπί]] [[either]] locally ([[see]] [[ἐπί]], C. I:1), or of [[succession]] ([[see]] [[ἐπί]], C. I:2c.)); ὁ [[οἶκος]] τοῦ Θεοῦ, the [[family]] of God, of the Christian [[church]], [[stock]], [[race]], descendants of [[one]] (A. V. [[house]]): ὁ [[οἶκος]] Δαυίδ, [[οἶκος]] [[Ἰσραήλ]], ὁ [[οἶκος]] [[Ἰακώβ]]), 46 L T Tr marginal [[reading]]); ὁ [[σεβαστός]] [[οἶκος]], [[Philo]] in Flac. § 4)). The [[word]] is [[not]] [[found]] in the Apocalypse. [ SYNONYMS: [[οἶκος]], [[οἰκία]]: in Attic (and [[especially]] [[legal]]) [[usage]], [[οἶκος]] denotes [[one]]'s [[household]] [[establishment]], [[one]]'s [[entire]] [[property]], [[οἰκία]], the [[dwelling]] itself; and in [[prose]] [[οἶκος]] is [[not]] used in the [[sense]] of [[οἰκία]]. In the [[sense]] of [[family]] [[οἶκος]] and [[οἰκία]] are [[alike]] employed; Schmidt vol. ii., [[chapter]] 80. In [[relation]] to distinctions ([[real]] or supposed) [[between]] [[οἶκος]] and [[οἰκία]] the [[following]] passages are of [[interest]] (cf. Valckenaer on [[Herodotus]] 7,224): [[Xenophon]], oecon. 1,5 [[οἶκος]] δέ δή τί δοκεῖ [[ἡμῖν]] κειναι; [[ἄρα]] [[ὅπερ]] [[οἰκία]], ἤ [[καί]] ὅσα [[τίς]] [[ἔξω]] τῆς οἰκίας κέκτηται, πάντα τοῦ οἴκου [[ταῦτα]] ἐστιν ... πάντα τοῦ ὀκου [[εἶναι]] ὅσα [[τίς]] κέκτηται. [[Aristotle]], polit. 1,2, p. 1252{b}, 9ff, ἐκ [[μέν]] [[οὖν]] [[τούτων]] τῶν [[δύο]] κοινωνιων (viz. of a [[man]] [[with]] [[wife]] and [[servant]]) [[οἰκία]] πρώτη, [[καί]] [[ὀρθῶς]] ἡσιοδος [[εἶπε]] ποιήσας "οἶκον [[μέν]] prootista] γυναῖκα τέ βοῦν τ' ἀροτηρα." ... ἡ [[μέν]] [[οὖν]] εἰς πᾶσαν ἡμέραν συνεστηκυια [[κοινωνία]] [[κατά]] φύσιν [[οἶκος]] ἐστιν. ibid. 3, p. 1253{b}, 2ff, [[πᾶσα]] [[πόλις]] ἐκ οἰκιῶν σύγκειται. οἰκίας δέ μέρη, ἐκ ὧν [[αὖθις]] [[οἰκία]] συνισταται. [[οἰκία]] δέ [[τέλειος]] ἐκ [[δούλων]] [[καί]] ἐλευθέρων ... [[πρῶτα]] δέ [[καί]] ἐλάχιστα μέρη οἰκίας [[δεσπότης]] [[καί]] [[δοῦλος]] [[καί]] [[πόσις]] [[καί]] [[ἄλοχος]]. [[πατήρ]] [[καί]] τέκνα, etc. [[Plutarch]], de audiend. poetis § 6 [[καί]] [[γάρ]] οἶκον [[πότε]] [[μέν]] [[τήν]] οἰκίαν καλοῦσιν, "οἶκον ἐς ὑψοροφον." [[πότε]] δέ [[τήν]] οὐσίαν, "ἐσθίεται μοι [[οἶκος]]." ([[see]] [[οἰκία]], c.) Hesychius' Lexicon, [[under]] the words [[οἰκία]], [[οἶκοι]], [[under]] the [[word]] [[οἶκος]]. ὀλίγη [[οἰκία]] ... [[καί]] [[μέρος]] τί τῆς οἰκίας ... [[καί]] τά ἐν τῇ [[οἰκία]]. In the N. T., [[although]] the words [[appear]] at times to be used [[with]] [[some]] [[discrimination]] (e. g. 1 Corinthians 16:15).]