oikoumenē · inhabited world

What it means

oikoumenē (οἰκουμένη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “inhabited world”.

The inhabited world, the earth where people live; also the Roman world.

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. The earth where people live.

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

How it is translated

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

• inhabited world ×12
• world ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×3
• Acts×5
• Romans×1
• Hebrews×2
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 24:14

  And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

• Luke 2:1

  Now it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered.

• Luke 4:5

  And leading him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited world in a moment of time.

• Luke 21:26

  people fainting from fear and expectation of the things coming on the inhabited world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

• Acts 11:28

  And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was going to come over all the inhabited world; and this took place in the time of Claudius.

• Acts 17:6

  But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have upset the inhabited world have come here too,

• Acts 17:31

  because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the inhabited world in righteousness, by a man whom he has appointed, having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

• Acts 19:27

  And not only is this line of business of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis is in danger of being counted as nothing, and she is going to be stripped of her majesty, she whom all Asia and the inhabited world worship.”

• Acts 24:5

  For we have found this man a pest and one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the party of the Nazarenes,

• Romans 10:18

  But I say: It is not that they did not hear, is it? On the contrary: Into all the earth their voice has gone out, and to the ends of the inhabited world their words.

• Hebrews 1:6

  And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says: And let all God’s angels worship him.

• Hebrews 2:5

  For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

• 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 12:9

  And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, the one called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• Revelation 16:14

  for they are spirits of demons performing signs, who go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them for the war of the great day of God the Almighty.