Greek word study

οἰκουμένηoikouménē — the inhabited (Roman) world

(properly: the land that is being inhabited, the land in a state of habitation), the inhabited world, that is, the Roman world, for all outside it was regarded as of no account.

Translated in the King James as: earth, world

Appears 15 times in Scripture

Origin: feminine participle present passive of G3611 (οἰκέω) (as noun, by implication, of G1093 (γῆ));

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