Lexical Summary oikodomia: edifying Original Word: οἰκοδομίαTransliteration: oikodomia Phonetic Spelling: (oy-kod-om-ee'-ah) Short Definition: edifying Meaning: edifying Strong's Concordance edifying. From the same as oikodome; confirmation -- edifying. see GREEK oikodome Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3620: οἰκοδομίαοἰκοδομία, ὀικοδομιας, ἡ (οἰκοδομέω) (the act of) buliding, erection (Thucydides, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian, etc.; but never in the Sept.); metaphorically, οἰκοδομίαν Θεοῦ τήν ἐν πίστει, the increase which God desires in faith (see οἰκοδομή), 1 Timothy 1:4 Rec.bez elz; but see οἰκονομία. Not infrequent οἰκονομία and οἰκοδομία are confounded in the manuscripts; see Grimm on 4 Maccabees, p. 365, cf. Hilgenfeld, the Epistle of Barnabas, p. 28; (D'Orville, Chariton 8, 1, p. 599). |
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