STRONGS 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), 
1 Timothy 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). 
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