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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