οἰκουμένηoikouménē
the inhabited earth
Greek (New Testament) · G3625
Meanings
(a) in classical Greek, the countries occupied by Greeks, as distinguished from barbarian lands
(b) in later writers, the Roman world: Luke 2:1, Acts 11:28, Acts 24:5; by by metonymy, of its inhabitants: Acts 17:6, Acts 19:27
(c) in LXX (Psalms 23:1, Psalms 71:8, and elsewhere) and NT, also of the whole inhabited world: Matthew 24:14, Luke 4:5, Luke 21:26, Romans 10:18, Hebrews 1:6, Revelation 3:10, Revelation 16:14; by by metonymy (ut supr.), Acts 17:31, Revelation 12:9
(d) of the Messianic age, ἡ οἰ. ἡ μέλλουσα = ὁ αἰὼ ὁ μέλλων: Hebrews 2:5.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 24:14 And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come.
- Luke 2:1 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire.
- Luke 4:5 Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- Luke 21:26 People will be terrified at what they see coming upon the earth, for the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
- Acts 11:28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.)
- Acts 17:6 Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council. “Paul and Silas have caused trouble all over the world,” they shouted, “and now they are here disturbing our city, too.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.