οἰκουμένη, -ης, ἡ (fern. Pres. pass. ptcp. of οἰκέω; sc. γῆ) [in LXX chiefly for תֵּבֵל, אֶרֶץ ;] the inhabited earth; (a) in cl., the countries occupied by Greeks, as disting. from barbarian lands (Hdt., Dem., al.); (b) in later writers, the Roman world: Luk.2:1, Act.11:28 24:5; by meton., of its inhabitants : Act.17:6 19:27; (with) in LXX (Psa.23:1 71:8, al.) and NT, also of the whole inhabited world: Mat.24:14, Luk.4:5 21:26, Rom.10:18, Heb.1:6, Rev.3:10 16:14; by meton. (ut supr.), Act.17:31, Rev.12:9; (d) of the Messianic age, ἡ οἰ. ἡ μέλλουσα = ὁ αἰὼ ὁ μέλλων: Heb.2:5.† (AS)
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G3625 — οἰκουμένη
oikoumenē · world · Greek
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Matthew 24:14 · οἰκουμένῃThis Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.Luke 2:1 · οἰκουμένην.Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.Luke 4:5 · οἰκουμένηςThe devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.Luke 21:26 · οἰκουμένῃ·men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.Acts 11:28 · οἰκουμένην,One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.Acts 17:6 · οἰκουμένηνWhen they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,Acts 17:31 · οἰκουμένηνbecause he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”Acts 19:27 · οἰκουμένηNot only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”Acts 24:5 · οἰκουμένηνFor we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.Romans 10:18 · οἰκουμένηςBut I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”Hebrews 1:6 · οἰκουμένηνAgain, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”Hebrews 2:5 · οἰκουμένηνFor he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.Revelation 3:10 · οἰκουμένηςBecause you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.Revelation 12:9 · οἰκουμένηνThe great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.Revelation 16:14 · οἰκουμένηςfor they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.