οἰκία

οἰκία, -ας, ἡ

(οἶκος), [in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for בַּיִת ;]

a house, dwelling: Matt 2,11; 7,24-27, Mark 1,29, al.; ἐν οἰκίᾳ (= cl. κατ ̓ οἰκίαν), at home, Luk 8,27 εἰς οἰ., 2 Joh 10; οἰ, with genitive of person(s), usually has the art. (Matt 8,14, al., but cf. οἶκος and see Bl., § 46, 9); ἡ οἰ. τ. πατρός μου, Joh 14,2,

Metaphorical,

(a) of the body as the dwelling of the soul: 2 Kor 5,1

(b) of property (as בַּיִת, 1 Mos 45,18, LXX, τ. υπάρχοντα; 1 Kong 13,8, LXX, οἶκος) = οἶκος (which see): Mark 12,40, Luk 20,47;

(with) of the inmates of the dwelling, the household: Matt 12,25 with genitive of person(s), Joh 4,53, 1 Kor 16,15

SYN.: οἶκος, which in Attic law denoted the whole estate, οἰκία, the dwelling only. In cl. poets οἶκος has also the latter sense, but not in prose, except in metaphorically usage, where it signifies both property and household. The foregoing distinction is not, however, consistently maintained in late Greek; cf. MM, ii, xvii, and see Thayer, see word οἰκία