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G456 ἀνοικοδομέω (anoikodoméō)
Greek
Verb
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Quick Definition

I rebuild, build up, build

Strong's Definition

to rebuild

Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G3618 (οἰκοδομέω);

KJV Usage: build again

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνοικοδομέω, ἀνοικοδόμω: future ἀνοικοδομήσω; to build again (Vulg.reaedifico): Act_15:16. ((Thucydides 1, 89, 3); Diodorus 11, 39; Plutarch, Themistius, 19; Cam. 31; Herodian, 8, 2, 12 (5, Bekker edition).)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνοικοδομέω anoikodomeō 2x to rebuild, Act_15:16 (2x)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀν -οικο -δομέω , -ῶ , [in LXX for H1129 , H1443 ;] to build. again, rebuild ( MM , VGT , s.v. ): Act_15:16 .†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀνοικοδομέω [page 45] In P Lond 887 .2 (iii/B.C.) (= III. p. 1) a complaint is lodged against a neighbour who has built (ἀνοικοδόμηκεν ) a staircase in a mutual courtyard, and thereby caused some injury to the petitioner : cf. P Magd 2 .2 (iii/B.C.) ἀνοικοδομήσαντος ἐν τῶι αὑτοῦ τόπωι ἱερόν κτλ ., and P Oxy IV. 707 .27 ( c. A.D. 136) ἀνοικοδομῆσαι τρόχον ἐκ καινῆς ἐξ ὀ [πτῆς ] πλίνθου ἐπὶ μέτροις ὡρτσμένοις , should build on a fixed scale a new wheel of baked brick (Edd.). In P Petr II. 12 (l) .15 (B.C. 241) καὶ ἀνοικοδομῆσαι βελτίους τῶν προϋπαρχόντων βωμῶν the meaning is re build : cf. Syll 220 .12 (iii/B.C.) καὶ τῶν τειχῶν τῶν ἐν τῆι νήσωι πεπτωκότων συνεπεμελήθη ὅπως ἀνοικοδομηθεῖ , and Chrest. I. 96 viii. 4 (A.D. 215) οἰκοδόμ (οις ) γ̄ κατασπῶσι καὶ ἀνοικοδομ (οῦσι ), ib. II. 68 .11 (A.D. 14) οὓς καὶ ἀνοικοδόμησα ἐπὶ τῶι [ἀρχ ]α [ί ]ωι θεμελίωι . Omission of augment is frequent in these οἰ -words. For a Christian use of ἀ . see the interesting epitaph of the fourth-century bishop of Laodiceia, M. Julius Eugenius, who describes himself as during his episcopate πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκλησίαν ἀνοικοδο [μ ]ήσας ἀπὸ θεμελίων (W. M. Calder in Exp VII. vi. p. 387).

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

ἀνοικοδομέω "to build up", Hdt. "to wall up", Ar. "to build again, rebuild", Thuc. , Xen.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἀν-οικο-δομέω, -ῶ [in LXX for בָּנָה, גָּדַר ;] to build. again, rebuild (MM, VGT, see word): Act.15:16.† (AS)

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