Mark 6:4:25Mark.6.4.W25TAB
οἰκίᾳ
oikia
“household”
- Transliteration
- oi-KI-a
- Extended
- oi-KIH-ah
- IPA
- /oi̯ˈki.a/
Meaning by language
- English
- household
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Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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Word in context
- word
oi-KI-a
- sentence
KAI E-le-gen au-TOIS ho ee-ay-SOOS HO-ti ouk ES-tin pro-PHÊ-tês A-ti-mos ei mê en têi pa-TRI-di au-TOU KAI en tois syng-ge-NEU-sin au-TOU KAI en têi oi-KI-a au-TOU
Exegesis
The exception construction ei me {εἰ μὴ | eì mē} ‘except’ governs three parallel prepositional phrases, each introduced by en {ἐν | en} ‘in’ plus a dative phrase: tē patridi autou {τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ | tē patrídi autoû} ‘in his homeland’, tois suggeneusin autou {τοῖς συγγενεῦσιν αὐτοῦ | toîs suggenêúsin autoû} ‘among his relatives’, and tē oikia autou {τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ | tē oikíā autoû} ‘in his house’. The repeated structure (en + article + noun + autou) creates rhythmic parallelism and emphasizes concentric circles of familiarity: town, extended kin, and immediate household. This syntactic pattern underlines how increasing social proximity paradoxically coincides with decreasing honor for the prophet, a structure that mirrors Jesus’ own experience in His hometown and informs the choice in the dynamic rendering to express the double negative as an affirmative (“is honored everywhere except”).
Root and etymology
Rootomicron–iota–kappa–omicron–sigma
“house, dwelling, household”
In context — Mark 6:4
And Jesus was saying to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his homeland and among his relatives and in his own house.”
About this coordinate
Mark 6:4:25 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 25 of Mark 6:4, so the Greek word οἰκίᾳ (oikia) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Mark.6.4.W25, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.6.4.W25.S1) and character.