Template:3625
3625 ~οἰκουμένη~ oikoumene \@oy-kou-men’-ay\@ feminine participle present passive of 3611 (as noun, by implication of 1093); TDNT-5:157,674; {See TDNT 539} n f AV-world 14, earth 1; 15
- 1) the inhabited earth
- 1a) the portion of the earth inhabited by the Greeks, in distinction from the lands of the barbarians
- 1b) the Roman empire, all the subjects of the empire
- 1c) the whole inhabited earth, the world
- 1d) the inhabitants of the earth, men
- 2) the universe, the world