Ancient Greek

Verb

οἰκοδομέω • ‎(oikodoméō)

1. to build a house, build
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 514.B
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.21
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.114
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.186
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.101
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 623.B.27
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 161.E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 165.D
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 7
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.11
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 372.A
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.126–127
2. (figuratively) to build or found upon
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.15
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 749
3. (figuratively) to build up, edify, embolden
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8.1
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10.23
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 5.11
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8.10

Inflection

References

• οἰκοδομέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἰκοδομέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «οἰκοδομέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G3618”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «οἰκοδομέω» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften