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Strong's G3625 οἰκουμένη (oikoumene)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3625 — kelach (“Calah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3625
Language Greek
Linked Usages 58
Books 18

Strong's G3625 Quick Answer

Strong's G3625 οἰκουμένη (oikoumene) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. oikoumene (oy-kou-men'-ay) n. 1. land, i.e. the (earthly part of the) globe 2. (specially) the Roman empire It has 58 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include world, earth, lord, judge, and out. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
oikoumene (oy-kou-men'-ay) n. 1. land, i.e. the (earthly part of the) globe 2. (specially) the Roman empire
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
world, earth, lord, judge, and out

Meaning and Definition

oikoumene (oy-kou-men'-ay) n. 1. land, i.e. the (earthly part of the) globe 2. (specially) the Roman empire [feminine participle present passive of G3611 (as noun, by implication, of G1093)] KJV: earth, world Root(s): G3611 See also: G1093

Original Word
οἰκουμένη
Transliteration
oikoumene
Derivation
Root: οἰκέω R1: 3611
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3625. 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)

world

Usage: 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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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

world earth lord judge out dwell come whole land righteousness nations day

How Strong's G3625 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 39 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 G3625 (οἰκουμένη) appears 44 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3625 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 G3625 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 24:14 KJV

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Luke 2:1 KJV

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

Luke 4:5 KJV

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Strong's G3625 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 16:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.

2 Kingdoms 22:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And the channels of the sea were seen, And the foundations of the world were discovered, At the rebuke of the Lord, At the blast of the breath of his anger.

Psalms 9:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will judge the nations in uprightness.

Strong's G3625 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 2:2 Septuagint / Brenton

the Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,

2 Maccabees 2:22 Septuagint / Brenton

and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down, the Lord being gracious unto them with all favor:

Wisdom of Solomon 1:7 Septuagint / Brenton

For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: And that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3625.

Exodus 16:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.
2 Kingdoms 22:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the channels of the sea were seen, And the foundations of the world were discovered, At the rebuke of the Lord, At the blast of the breath of his anger.
Psalms 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will judge the nations in uprightness.
Psalms 17:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the springs of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were exposed, At thy rebuke, O Lord, At the blasting of the breath of thy wrath.
Psalms 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their voice is gone out into all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.
Psalms 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; The world, and all that dwell in it.
Psalms 32:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let all the earth fear the Lord; And let all that dwell in the world be moved because of him.
Psalms 48:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear these words, all ye nations, Hearken, all ye that dwell upon the earth:
Psalms 49:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: For the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
Psalms 71:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, And from the river to the ends of the earth.
Psalms 76:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The voice of thy thunder was abroad, And around thy lightnings appeared to the world; The earth trembled and quaked.
Psalms 88:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: Thou hast founded the world, and the fullness of it.
Psalms 89:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the mountains existed, And before the earth and the world were formed, Even from age to age, thou art.
Psalms 92:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honor: The Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; For he has established the world, which shall not be moved.
Psalms 95:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: For he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: He shall judge the people in righteousness.
Psalms 95:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for he comes, For he comes to judge the earth; He shall judge the world in righteousness, And the people with his truth.
Psalms 96:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His lightnings appeared to the world; The earth saw, and trembled.
Psalms 97:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; The world, and they that dwell in it.
Psalms 97:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he is come to judge the earth; He shall judge the world in righteousness, And the nations in uprightness.
Proverbs 8:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And rejoiced among the children of men.
Isaiah 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.
Isaiah 10:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.
Isaiah 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.
Isaiah 13:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
Isaiah 13:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
Isaiah 14:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.
Isaiah 14:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.
Isaiah 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 24:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.
Isaiah 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
Isaiah 27:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.
Isaiah 34:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
Isaiah 37:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubs, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world: thou hast made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 37:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,
Isaiah 62:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt no more be called Forsaken; and thy land shall no more be called Desert: for thou shalt be called My Pleasure, and thy land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.
Jeremiah 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jeremiah 28:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
Lamentations 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The kings of the earth, Even all that dwell in the world, Believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter Through the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 3:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let them know that thou art Lord, the only God, And glorious over the whole world.
Matthew 24:14 New Testament, KJV
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Luke 2:1 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
Luke 4:5 New Testament, KJV
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luke 21:26 New Testament, KJV
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Acts 11:28 New Testament, KJV
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
Acts 17:6 New Testament, KJV
And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
Acts 17:31 New Testament, KJV
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Acts 19:27 New Testament, KJV
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Acts 24:5 New Testament, KJV
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Romans 10:18 New Testament, KJV
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Hebrews 1:6 New Testament, KJV
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews 2:5 New Testament, KJV
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
Revelation 3:10 New Testament, KJV
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation 12:9 New Testament, KJV
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 16:14 New Testament, KJV
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
1 Esdras 2:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
the Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,
2 Maccabees 2:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down, the Lord being gracious unto them with all favor:
Wisdom of Solomon 1:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: And that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:61 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3625, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 5 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3625 FAQ

What does oikoumene (οἰκουμένη) mean?

Oikoumene (Strong's G3625) is a Greek word most simply glossed "earth". oikoumene (oy-kou-men'-ay) n. 1. land, i.e. the (earthly part of the) globe 2. (specially) the Roman empire

How many times is oikoumene (οἰκουμένη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's G3625 across 18 books.

Where can I study oikoumene (οἰκουμένη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3625 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate oikoumene (οἰκουμένη)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as world, earth, lord, judge, out, and dwell. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3625 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 39 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3625, with linked reader references where each row is available.