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Presumably from the Greek "oikon" meaning family or household.
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Epistle to the Romans (xvi, 5), St. Paul mentions a place where religious services were held, the house of Aquila and Prisca (ten kat oikon auton ekklesian -- now Santa Prisca on the Aventine).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Mouseion, echon peripaton kai exedran kai oikon megan, en ho to spsssition ton metechonton tou Mouseiou philologon andron.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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Job 7: 10 oud 'ou me epistrepse eis ton idion oikon.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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Stein would take {peri oikon ton son} with {oudemia sumphore}, but the order of words is against this.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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Another singularly gross specimen of interpolation, in my judgment, is supplied by the purely apocryphal statement which is met with in Cod. #, at the end of S. Matthew's account of the healing of the Centurion's servant, -- kai upostrepsas o ekatontarchos eis ton oikon autou en aute te ora, euren ton paida ugiainonta viii.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Mouseion, echon peripatôn kai exedran kai oikon megan, en ps to sussition tôn metechontôn tou Mouseion philologôn andrôn esti de tê sunodô tautê kai chrêmata koina kai iereus o epi tô Monseiô, tetagmenos tote men upo tôn
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Herod I. had taken a village, in which there were many of the enemy's soldiers; part of them were taken on the roofs, and then, it is said, "tous orophous ton oikon kataskapton, emplea ta kato ton stratioton heora athroon apeilemmenon."
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870
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They broke bread from house to house; kat oikon -- house by house; they did not think fit to celebrate the eucharist in the temple, for that was peculiar to the Christian institutes, and therefore they administered that ordinance in private houses, choosing such houses of the converted
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Suffer me apotaxasthai tois eis ton oikon mou -- Let me go and set in order my household affairs, and give direction concerning them; so some understand it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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