oikeō · dwell, live

What it means

oikeō (οἰκέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “dwell, live”.

In a place; also live with someone.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To reside in a place; share a home as spouses.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dwells ×7
• live ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×5
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 1 Timothy×1

• Romans 7:17

  But now it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

• Romans 7:18

  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wanting is present with me, but the doing of the good is not.

• Romans 7:20

  But if what I do not want, this I do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

• Romans 8:9

  But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, this person is not his.

• Romans 8:11

  And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised the Messiah Jesus from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you.

• 1 Corinthians 3:16

  Do you not know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

• 1 Corinthians 7:12

  To the rest I, not the Lord, say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not send away her.

• 1 Corinthians 7:13

  And if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not send away her husband.

• 1 Timothy 6:16

  who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal might. Amen.