Word Summary
enkatoikeō: to settle down in (a place), reside
Original Word: ἐγκατοικέωTransliteration: enkatoikeō
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kat-oy-keh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to settle down in (a place), reside
Meaning: to settle down in (a place), reside
Strong's Concordance
dwell among.
From en and katoikeo; to settle down in a place, i.e. Reside -- dwell among.
see GREEK en
see GREEK katoikeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1460: ἐγκατοικέωἐγκατοικέω (
T WH ἐνκατοικέω, see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐγκατοίκω;
to dwell among:
ἐν αὐτοῖς, among them,
2 Peter 2:8. (Very rare in secular writings as (
Herodotus 4, 204);
Euripides, fragment (188) quoted in
Dio Chrysostom or. 73 fin;
Polybius 18, 26, 13.)
STRONGS NT 1460a: ἐγκαυχάομαιἐγκαυχάομαι (T WH ἐνκαυχάομαι, see ἐν, III. 3); to glory in: followed by ἐν with the dative of the object (Psalm 51:3 (); (); Psalm 105:47 (), 2 Thessalonians 1:4 L T Tr WH. (With simple dative of thing in ecclesiastical writings and Aesop's Fables.)