Lexicon oikeios: of one's family, domestic Original Word: οἰκεῖος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: oikeios Phonetic Spelling: (oy-ki'-os) Short Definition: of one's family, domestic Definition: of one's family, domestic, intimate. Thayer's STRONGS NT 3609: οἰκεῖοςοἰκεῖος, οἰκεῖα, οἰκεῖον ( οἶκος), from Hesiod down, belonging to a house or family, domestic, intimate: belonging to one's household, related by blood, kindred, 1 Timothy 5:8; οἰκεῖοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, belonging to God's household, i. e. to the theocracy, Ephesians 2:19; in a wider sense, with a genitive of the thing, belonging to, devoted to, adherents of a thing, οἱ οἰκεῖοι τῆς πίστεως, professors of the (Christian) faith, Galatians 6:10 (but others associate this passage with that from Ephesians as above; see Lightfoot at the passage); so οἰκεῖος φιλοσοφίας, Strabo 1, p. 13 b. (1, 17 edition Sieben.); γεωγραφιας, p. 25 a. (1, 34 edition Sieben.); ὀλιγαρχιας, Diodorus 13, 91; τυραννίδος, 19, 70. (The Sept. for שְׁאֵר, related by blood; דּוד, 1 Samuel 10:14ff; שַׁאֲרָה, consanguinity, Leviticus 18:17; οἰκεῖος τοῦ σπέρματος for בָּשָׂר, Isaiah 58:7.) STRONGS NT 3609a: οἰκετείαοἰκετεία (others, οἰκετεία, cf. Chandler § 99ff), οἰκετείας, ἡ (οἰκέτης, which see), household i. e. body of servants (Macrobius, Appuleius ()famulitium, German Dienerschaft): Matthew 24:45 L T Tr WH. (Strabo, Lucian, Inscriptions; plural Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 3),
Strong's those of the his own household. From oikos; domestic, i.e. (as noun), a relative, adherent -- (those) of the (his own) house(-hold). see GREEK oikos |