Bible Lexicons

";one’s own"; in contrast to ";another’s"; (ἀλλότριος : cf. Arist. Rhet. i. 5. 7), hence ";a member of one’s family or household,"; is seen in such passages as P Lille I. 7.5 (iii/B.C.) διατρίβοντος γάρ μου μετὰ Ἀπολλωνίου ἐμοῦ (αὐτοῦ inserted above line) οἰκείου, P Magd 13.2 (B.C. 217) ἀδικούμεθα ὑπὸ Θευδότου καὶ Ἀγάθωνος, οἵ εἰσιν οἰκεῖοι τῆς μητρὸς Φιλίππου, P Grenf II. 28.5 (B.C. 103) με [τ ]ὰ κυρίου ἑαυτῆς οἰκήου Θοτούτης, Preisigke 6.10 (A.D. 216) πρώην οὖν εἰς τὸν τόπον ε [ἰ ]σελθόντων τῶν οἰκείων μου. . . οὐχ εὑρε ̣θ ̣η ̣ τ [ὰ σ ]ειτάρια κεκουφισμένα, and for the neut. cf. P Oxy XIV. 1682.7 (iv/A.D.) ἡ μὲν τοῦ θεοῦ πρόνοια παρέξει τὸ μετὰ ὁλοκληρίας σε τὰ οἰκεῖα ἀπολαβεῖν, ";may the divine providence grant that you may be restored in security to your home"; (Edd.). For the wider sense of οἰκεῖος, ";intimate,"; ";spiritually akin with,"; in its NT occurrences (Galatians 6:10, Ephesians 2:19, 1 Timothy 5:8), see Whitaker Exp VIII. xxiii. p. 76 ff. The ";exhausted"; οἰκεῖος, practically equal to a possessive pronoun, is common in Hellenistic writers such as Josephus (exx. in Schmidt Jos. p. 369). For οἰκεῖος = ἴδιος in Epictetus, see Stob. 11 ὅπερ οὖν σοι φυσικὸν καὶ συγγενές, ὁ λόγος, τοῦτο καὶ οἰκεῖον ἡγησάμενος τούτου ἐπιμελοῦ, ";that therefore which is natural and congenial to thee, Reason, think to be specially thy own and take care of it"; (Sharp, p. 127).

For an interesting ex. of the verb οἰκειόω cf. P Ryl II. 114.2 (c. A.D. 280), where a widow appeals to the Prefect for protection against the aggression of a certain Syrion—οἰκίωται δὲ τῷ προκειμένῳ Συρίω [νι ἐμὲ τὴν χήρα ]ν ̣ μετὰ νηπίων τέκνων ἀεὶ ἀποστερεῖν, ";but it is characteristic of the aforesaid Syrion on all occasions to rob me and my young children"; (Edd.). The subst. οἰκειότης is seen in OGIS 5.41 (B.C. 311) διὰ τὴν οἰκειότητα τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ἡμῖν πρὸς αὐτόν, and οἰκείωσις in Vett. Val. p. 202.17.