oi\ko" oi\ko", oi[kou, oJ (cf. Latin vicus, English ending -wich; Curtius, sec. 95), from Homer down; the Septuagint in numberless places for tyIB', also for lk'yhe, a palace, lh,ao, a tent, etc.;1. a house; a. strictly, an inhabited house (differing thus from dovmo" the building): ; ; tivno", f; ; ; ,,; ,, etc.; e[rcesqai eij" oi\kon, to come into a house (domurn venire), (19); eij" tovn oi\kon, into the (i. e. his or their) house, home, ; ; ejn tw'/ oi[kw/, in the (her) house, ; ejn oi[kw/, at home, ; ; oiJ eij" tovn oi\kon(see eij", C. 2), ; kat! oi\kon, opposed to ejn tw'/ iJerw'/, in a household assembly, in private (R. V. at home; see katav, II. 1 d.), ; ; kat! oi[kou", opposed to dhmosiva/, in private houses (A. V. from house to house; see katav, II. 3 a.), ; katav touv" oi[kou" eijsporeuovmeno", entering house after house, ; hJ kat! oi\kon tivno" ejkklhsiva, see ejkklhsiva, 4 b. aa. b. any building whatever: ejmporivou, ; proseuch'", ; ; ; tou' basilevw", tou' ajrcierevw", the palace of etc., ; (here T Tr WH oijkiva); tou' Qeou', the house where God was regarded as present -- of the tabernacle, ; ; ; of the temple at Jerusalem, ; ; ; f, (, ); cf. ; ,; of the heavenly sanctuary, (oi\ko" a{gio" Qeou', of heaven, ; ); a body of Christians (a church), as pervaded by the Spirit and power of God, is called oi\ko" pneumatikov", . c. any dwelling-place: of the human body as the abode of demons that possess it, ; ; (used in Greek authors also of tents and huts, and later, of the nests, stalls, lairs, of animals). universally, the place where one has fixed his residence, one's settled abode, domicile: oi\ko" uJmw'n, of the city of Jerusalem, ; .2. by metonymy, the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household: ; (al: refer this to 1, and take ejpiv either locally (see ejpiv, C. I. 1), or of succession (see ejpiv, C. I. 2 c.));; ; ; ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Act 16:31$$16:31>