2001 Translation

OIKOUMENĒN, oikoumenēn

Sounds Like: oy-koo-MEH-nen

Translations: the inhabited earth, the world, the Roman Empire

From the root: ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the inhabited earth, often specifically the Roman Empire during the time of the New Testament. It can also refer more generally to the entire world or a specific region that is populated. It is used to describe the scope of events or authority, such as a decree affecting the whole world.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3625 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:9, 1:37, 1:38

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:13

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 60:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 31:280, 34:310

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 6:116, 6:138
• Book 8 — 13:329
• Book 11 — 6:196
• Book 12 — 2:12, 2:48
• Book 13 — 3:77
• Book 14 — 7:110
• Book 17 — 9:246
• Book 19 — 1:14, 5:286, 6:292

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 16:31, 16:32, 16:40
• Book Three — 9:1
• Book Four — 10:31
• Book Seven — 3:7, 5:65

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 53:5, 53:6, 61:4, 73:4, 108:2

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 5:1, 8:1, 19:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 16:35
• Esther — 3:13
• 2 Maccabees — 2:22
• Psalms — 9:9, 32:8, 48:2, 88:12, 89:2, 92:1, 95:10, 95:13, 97:9
• Odes — 9:45
• Proverbs — 8:31
• Wisdom — 1:7
• Isaiah — 10:14, 13:5, 13:9, 14:17, 14:26, 24:1, 37:18
• Jeremiah — 10:12, 28:15
• Lamentations — 4:12
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:61
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:45
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:2, 3:45

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 2:1
• Acts — 11:28, 17:6, 17:31, 24:5
• Hebrews — 1:6, 2:5
• Revelation — 12:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ὈΧΟΥΜΕΝΟΝ — inhabited earth, the world, a world, the Roman Empire, the inhabited land, a land
• ΟἸΚΟΥΜΕΝ — the inhabited earth, the world, a world
• ΟἸΚΟΥΜΕΝΑΣ — inhabited worlds, earths, worlds
• ΟἸΚΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ — of the inhabited earth, of the world, of the Roman Empire, of the inhabited land
• ΟΙΚΟΥΒΕΝ‾Η‾ — world, inhabited earth, a world, the inhabited world, the Roman Empire
• ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗΝ — the inhabited earth, the world, the Roman Empire, the whole world
• ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ — of the inhabited earth, of the world, of the universe
• ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝ‾Η‾ — inhabited earth, world, a world, the Roman Empire
• ΤΗΝΟἸΚΟΥΜΕΝΗΝ — the inhabited earth, the world, the Roman Empire

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