Definition:
οἰκία, -ας, ἡ (οἶκος), [in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for בַּיִת;] a house, dwelling: Mat.2:11 7:24-27, Mrk.1:29, al; ἐν οἰκίᾳ (= cl. κατ ̓ οἰκίαν), at home, Luk.8:27; εἰς οἰ, II Jn 10; οἰ, with genitive of person(s), usually has the art. (Mat.8:14, al, but cf. οἶκος and see Bl, § 46, 9); ἡ οἰ. τ. πατρός μου, Jhn.14:2. Metaphorical, (a) of the body as the dwelling of the soul: 2Co.5:1; (b) of property (as בַּיִת, Gen.45:18, LXX, τ. υπάρχοντα; 3Ki.13:8, LXX, οἶκος) = οἶκος (which see): Mrk.12:40, Luk.20:47; (with) of the inmates of the dwelling, the household: Mat.12:25; with genitive of person(s), Jhn.4:53, 1Co.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 (AS)
Definition:
οἰκί-α,
Ionic dialect οἰκίη, Cretan dialect and
Locrian dialect ϝοικία, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—ἡ,
building, house, dwelling, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] at
home, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ. was at
home, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+] as
house to
set of apartments or
room, τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
2) in
Attic dialect law, οἶκος was distinguished from οἰκία, the former being the
property left at a person's death, his
estate, the latter the
dwelling-house only, as stated by [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3) distinguished from συνοικία, as
one's own apartments from
those let out to lodgers, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II)
household, domestic establishment, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει, i. e. he kept two
establishments, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; more primitive than the πόλις,[
Refs]; ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας the
house-steward, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
III)
the household, i. e.
inmates of the house, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV)
house or
family from which one is descended, οἰκίης ἀγαθῆς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἰκίης οὐ φλαυροτέρης[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
V) medical
school, ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου [
Refs 1st c.AD+]