- Transliteration: Oikodome

- Phonetic: oy-kod-om-ay'

- Definition:

1. (the act of) building, building up

2. metaph. edifying, edification

a. the act of one who promotes another's growth in Christian wisdom, piety, happiness, holiness

3. a building (i.e. the thing built, edifice)

- Origin: feminine (abstract) of a compound of G3624" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3624 and the base of G1430" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1430

- TDNT entry: 07:24,7

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Feminine (abstraction) of a compound of G3624" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3624 and the base of G1430" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1430; architecture that is (concretely) a structure; figuratively confirmation: - building edify (-ication -ing).