katoikeō · dwell, live

What it means

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

In a place, inhabit.

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 have one's home in a place.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To dwell, to live permanently in a place. It is a compound of οἰκέω, ‘dwell’. It is said of persons in a city, of God, of the fullness of God in the Messiah, and of the Messiah in the heart.

• Living in a town Matthew 2:23Matthew 4:13Acts 2:5
• “The Most High does not dwell in {houses} made by hands” Acts 7:48Acts 17:24
• “In him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily” Colossians 2:9Colossians 1:19
• “That the Messiah may dwell through faith in your hearts” Ephesians 3:17
• “In which righteousness dwells” 2 Peter 3:13
• “Those who live on the earth” Revelation 13:8Revelation 11:10

How we translate it

“Live” 22 times, “who lived” 7, “living” 3 for persons in a place (“Jews living in Jerusalem”, Acts 2:5; “all those who live in Jerusalem”, 1:19); “dwell” and “dwells” (7) where it is God, his fullness or the Messiah (Acts 7:48; Colossians 2:9; Ephesians 3:17); “settled” in Matthew 2:23 and 4:13. In Revelation, the formula “those who live on the earth”.

How it is translated

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

• live ×22
• who lived ×7
• dwell ×4
• dwells ×3
• living ×3
• lived ×2
• settled ×2
• lives ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Luke×2
• Acts×20
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×2
• Hebrews×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×13

• Matthew 2:23

  and he came and settled in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

• Matthew 4:13

  And leaving Nazareth, he came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,

• Matthew 12:45

  Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will be also with this evil generation.”

• Matthew 23:21

  and the one who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by the one who dwells in it;

• Luke 11:26

  Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that person becomes worse than the first.”

• Luke 13:4

  Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were debtors more than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

• Acts 1:19

  And it became known to all those who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.

• Acts 1:20

  For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his dwelling become desolate, and let there be no one living in it’; and, ‘Let another take his office.’

• Acts 2:5

  Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation of those under heaven.

• Acts 2:9

  Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

• Acts 2:14

  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and spoke out to them: “Jewish men and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.

• Acts 4:16

  saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has occurred through them is evident to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

• Acts 7:2

  And he said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

• Acts 7:4

  Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God moved him to this land in which you now live.

• Acts 7:48

  Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

• Acts 9:22

  But Saul was being strengthened all the more, and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man is the Messiah.

• Acts 9:32

  Now it happened that Peter, going through all parts, came down also to the saints who lived in Lod.

• Acts 9:35

  And all who lived in Lod and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

• Acts 11:29

  And the disciples, as anyone was prospering, determined, each of them, to send something for aid to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 13:27

  For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing him or the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 17:24

  The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by hands,

• Acts 17:26

  and he made from one every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

• Acts 19:10

  And this went on for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

• Acts 19:17

  And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

• Acts 22:12

  And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

• Ephesians 3:17

  that the Messiah may dwell through faith in your hearts, being rooted and grounded in love,

• Colossians 1:19

  because God was pleased for all the fullness to dwell in him,

• Colossians 2:9

  because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

• Hebrews 11:9

  By faith he lived as a resident alien in the land of the promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;

• 2 Peter 3:13

  But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

• Revelation 2:13

  I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

• Revelation 3:10

  Because you have kept the word of my endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world to test those who live on the earth.

• Revelation 6:10

  And they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, holy and true Sovereign, will you not judge and avenge our blood on those who live on the earth?”

• Revelation 8:13

  And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to blow!”

• Revelation 11:10

  And those who live on the earth rejoice over them and celebrate, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.

• Revelation 13:8

  And all who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

• Revelation 13:12

  And it exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and it makes the earth and those who live in it worship the first beast, whose death wound was healed.

• Revelation 13:14

  And it deceives those who live on the earth by the signs that it was given to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image for the beast that has the wound of the sword and came to life.

• Revelation 17:2

  with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:8

  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and goes to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and will be present.

And 4 more times.