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οἰκοδομέωoikodoméō
GreekG361842 occurrences (KJV)

to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm

KJV renders it: (be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden

Where it appears(showing the first 38 of 42)

  • Matt 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • Matt 7:26Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
  • Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  • Matt 21:33“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
  • Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’
  • Matt 23:29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
  • Matt 26:61and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
  • Matt 27:40and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
  • Mark 12:1He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
  • Mark 12:10Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
  • Mark 14:58“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
  • Mark 15:29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
  • Luke 4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
  • Luke 6:48He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
  • Luke 6:49But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
  • Luke 7:5for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”
  • Luke 11:47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
  • Luke 11:48So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
  • Luke 12:18He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
  • Luke 14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
  • Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’
  • Luke 17:28Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
  • Luke 20:17But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?’
  • John 2:20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
  • Acts 4:11He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
  • Acts 7:47But Solomon built him a house.
  • Acts 7:49‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord; ‘or what is the place of my rest?
  • Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
  • 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 1 Cor 8:10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
  • 1 Cor 10:23“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
  • 1 Cor 14:4He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
  • 1 Cor 14:17For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
  • Gal 2:18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
  • 1 Th 5:11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
  • 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 2:7For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.