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Strong's G2733 κατοικία (katoikia)

Katoikia means “habitation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2733 — charodi (“Harodite”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2733
Language Greek
Linked Usages 37
Books 16

Strong's G2733 Quick Answer

Strong's G2733 κατοικία (katoikia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katoikia (kat-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. residence 2. (properly) the condition It has 37 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include habitation. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
katoikia (kat-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. residence 2. (properly) the condition
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
habitation

Meaning and Definition

katoikia (kat-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. residence 2. (properly) the condition 3. (by implication) the abode itself [from ???] KJV: habitation

Original Word
κατοικία
Transliteration
katoikia
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2733. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

dwelling

Usage: κατ-οικία, -ας, ἡ (κατοικέω), [in LXX chiefly for מוֹשָׁב, Exo.35:3, al. ;] __1. a dwelling: Act.17:26. __2. a settlement (Polyb.).† (AS)

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How Strong's G2733 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katoikia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

habitation Acts 17:26

How Strong's G2733 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 31 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2733 (κατοικία) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2733 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2733 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Acts 17:26 KJV

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Strong's G2733 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

31 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 35:3 Septuagint / Brenton

Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day; I am the Lord.

Leviticus 3:17 Septuagint / Brenton

It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.

Leviticus 7:26 Septuagint / Brenton

Ye shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds.

Strong's G2733 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 9:12 Septuagint / Brenton

therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

1 Esdras 9:37 Septuagint / Brenton

And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel, dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations.

1 Maccabees 1:38 Septuagint / Brenton

insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made a habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2733.

Exodus 35:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.
Leviticus 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds.
Leviticus 23:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days shalt thou do works, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: thou shalt not do any work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not eat bread, or the new parched corn, until this same day, until ye offer the sacrifices to your God: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall bring from your dwelling loaves, as a heave offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the firstfruits to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; ye shall do no servile work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations.
Leviticus 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.
Numbers 24:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Thy dwelling place is strong; Yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,
Numbers 35:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
1 Chronicles 6:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are their residences in their villages, in their coasts, to the sons of Aaron, to their family the Kohathites: for they had the lot.
1 Chronicles 7:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their possession and their dwelling were Bethel and her towns, to the east Naaran, westward Gezer and her towns, and Shechem and her towns, as far as Gaza and her towns.
Psalms 86:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.
Psalms 131:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord has elected Zion, He has chosen her for a habitation for himself, saying,
Jeremiah 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.
Jeremiah 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement), yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.
Jeremiah 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go and read these words toward the north, and thou shalt say, Return to me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever.
Ezekiel 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
Ezekiel 6:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Riblah, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 28:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord; Because thy heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel 34:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land.
Ezekiel 48:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But concerning the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Daniel 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.
Daniel 4:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall drive thee forth from men, and thy dwelling shall be with wild beasts, and they shall feed thee with grass as an ox, and thou shalt have thy lodging under the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whom he shall please.
Daniel 4:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall feed thee with grass as an ox: and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whomsoever he shall please.
Daniel 4:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What hast thou done?
Daniel 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please.
Hosea 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and his people shall cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.
Hosea 14:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.
Obadiah 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonored. The pride of thy heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
Zephaniah 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling place.
Acts 17:26 New Testament, KJV
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
1 Esdras 9:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,
1 Esdras 9:37 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel, dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations.
1 Maccabees 1:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made a habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.
2 Maccabees 3:39 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For he that dwelleth in heaven hath his eye on that place, and defendeth it; and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt it.
Wisdom of Sirach 44:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Rich men furnished with ability, Living peaceably in their habitations:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2733, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2733 FAQ

What does katoikia (κατοικία) mean?

Katoikia (Strong's G2733) is a Greek word most simply glossed "habitation". katoikia (kat-oy-kee'-ah) n. 1. residence 2. (properly) the condition

How many times is katoikia (κατοικία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's G2733 across 16 books.

Where can I study katoikia (κατοικία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2733 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate katoikia (κατοικία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as habitation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2733 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 31 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2733, with linked reader references where each row is available.