οἰκοδομ-ία, ἡ,
I = -δόμησις 1, IG 12.338.15 (prob.), Democr. 154, Th. 1.93, Pl. Lg. 804c, PHal. 1.181 (iii B. C.).
II building, edifice, Th. 2.65 (pl.), Pl. Lg. 758e, 759a, al.
G3620 — οἰκοδομία
ὀικοδομιας, ἡ (οἰκοδομέω) (the act of) buliding, erection (Thucydides, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian, etc.; but never in the Sept.); metaphorically, οἰκοδομίαν Θεοῦ τήν ἐν πίστει, the increase which God desires in faith (see οἰκοδομή), [1Ti 1:4] Rec.bez elz; but see οἰκονομία. Not infrequent οἰκονομία and οἰκοδομία are confounded in the manuscripts; see Grimm on 4 Maccabees, p. 365, cf. Hilgenfeld, the Epistle of Barnabas, p. 28; (D'Orville, Chariton 8, 1, p. 599).