oikodomeō · build

What it means

oikodomeō (οἰκοδομέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “build”.

In a figurative sense, strengthen others and help them grow.

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 raise a house, a tower or another structure, stone upon stone.
2. To help others grow in faith.

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

How it is translated

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

• build ×17
• built ×14
• builders ×4
• builds up ×3
• building ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×8
• Mark×4
• Luke×12
• John×1
• Acts×4
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×6
• Galatians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Peter×2

• Matthew 7:24

  “So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

• Matthew 7:26

  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

• Matthew 16:18

  And I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus says to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

• Matthew 23:29

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the sanctuary of God and in three days to build it.’”

• Matthew 27:40

  and saying, “You who would destroy the sanctuary and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

• Mark 12:1

  And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Mark 12:10

  Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner;

• Mark 14:58

  “We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this sanctuary made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”

• Mark 15:29

  And those who passed by were insulting him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the sanctuary and build it in three days,

• Luke 4:29

  and rising up, they drove him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, so as to throw him down the cliff.

• Luke 6:48

  he is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood came, the river burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

• Luke 6:49

  But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; the river burst against it, and at once it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

• Luke 7:5

  for he loves our nation, and he himself built the synagogue for us.”

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 11:48

  So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they on the one hand killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 12:18

  And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 14:28

  For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has enough for completion?

• Luke 14:30

  saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

• Luke 20:17

  But he looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner’?

• John 2:20

  So the Jews said, “This sanctuary was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

• Acts 7:47

  But Solomon built a house for him.

• Acts 7:49

  ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

• Acts 9:31

  So the assembly throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it was multiplied.

• Acts 20:32

  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Romans 15:20

  and so, making it my ambition to announce the good news not where the Messiah was already named, so that I would not build on another’s foundation,

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, since he is weak, be built up to eat food sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 10:23

  All things are permitted, but not all things are beneficial; all things are permitted, but not all things build up.

• 1 Corinthians 14:4

  The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the assembly.

• 1 Corinthians 14:17

  For you give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

• Galatians 2:18

  For if what I tore down, these things I build again, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:11

  Therefore comfort one another and build up one another, just as you are also doing.

• 1 Peter 2:5

  you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus the Messiah.

• 1 Peter 2:7

  To you then who believe is the honor; but to those who do not believe, The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner,

And 2 more times.