What Word Was Wuest Working With? dwell katoikēsai κατοικῆσαι1

What Word Was Wuest Working With? dwell katoikēsai κατοικῆσαι₁
4. Does He Feel at Home?

PAUL PRAYS (Eph. 3:17) that Christ may dwell in the hearts of the saints. The word “dwell” is from a Greek word made up of two words, one meaning “to live in a home,” and the other, literally meaning “down.” Paul prays that our Lord might live in our hearts as His home. He is already in us, therefore Paul’s thought must be that He feel at home in our hearts. The tense speaks of finality, the word for “down” speaking of permanency. The full translation is, “That Christ may finally settle down and feel completely at home in your hearts.”  V 17, p 23

It is one thing to be in a person’s home, another thing to feel completely at home there. Our Lord condescends to live in the heart of a sinner saved by grace. What an honor to have such a guest in our hearts. Do we make Him feel at home? Does He have free access to all parts of our heart life, or is He shut out from this thing or that? Is He our constant companion or are we occupied at times with persons or things that we feel are not consistent with our fellowship with Him? Is He Lord of our lives, the invited guest to occupy the throne room of our hearts? Many have tried to make Jesus Lord of their lives, and have failed because they have tried in their own strength. No man calls Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit. That is why Paul prays that we might be strengthened with might by His Spirit in order that Christ might finally settle down and feel completely at home in our hearts. The secret of the Lordship of Jesus, is a desire that the Holy Spirit make Him Lord of our lives, and a trust in the Spirit to accomplish that for us.


Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s word studies from the Greek New Testament: for the English reader (Vol. 17, pp. 22–23). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
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Eph 3:17 Wherefore, I am asking in my own interest, that you do not lose heart by reason of my tribulations on your behalf which are of such a nature as to be your glory. On this account I bow my knees to the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that He would grant to you according to the wealth of His glory, with power to be strengthened through the Spirit in the inward man, that the Christ might finally settle down and feel completely at home in your hearts through your faith; in love having been firmly rooted and grounded in order that you may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the breadth and width and height and depth, and to know experientially the love of the Christ which surpasses experiential knowledge in order that you may be filled up to the measure of all the fulness of God.

Wuest, K. S. (1961). The New Testament: an expanded translation (Eph 3:13–19). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
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Rom. 16:25

1 Cor. 2:9

Col. 1:29

Rom. 11:36

The New King James Version. (1982). (Eph 3:14–21). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

2. katoikeo (κατοικέω, 2730), kata, “down,” and No. 1, the most frequent verb with this meaning, properly signifies “to settle down in a dwelling, to dwell fixedly in a place.” Besides its literal sense, it is used of (a) the “indwelling” of the totality of the attributes and powers of the Godhead in Christ, Col. 1:19; 2:9; (b) the “indwelling” of Christ in the hearts of believers (“may make a home in your hearts”), Eph. 3:17; (c) the “dwelling” of Satan in a locality, Rev. 2:13; (d) the future “indwelling” of righteousness in the new heavens and earth, 2 Pet. 3:13. It is translated “dwellers” in Acts 1:19; 2:9; “inhabitants” in Rev. 17:2, KJV (RV, “they that dwell”), “inhabiters” in Rev. 8:13 and 12:12, KJV (RV, “them that dwell”).
Cf. the nouns katoikesis (below), katoikia, “habitation,” Acts 17:26¶; katoiketerion, “a habitation,” Eph. 2:22; Rev. 18:2.¶ Contrast paroikeo, “to sojourn,” the latter being temporary, the former permanent. See HABITATION, INHABITANT.


Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W., Jr. (1996). Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol. 2, p. 180). Nashville, TN: T. Nelson.

2997 κατοικέω (katoikeō): vb.; ≡ DBLHebr 3782; Str 2730; TDNT 5.153—LN 85.69 dwell, live in, reside in (Mt 2:23; 12:45; 23:21; Lk 11:26; Ac 1:20; Eph 3:17; Col 1:19; 2:9; Heb 11:9; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 2:13; 8:13)

Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) (electronic ed.). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Theological Dictionary of the New Testament - Abridged Edition

οἶκος oíkos [house, family, household, race] <G3624>,
οικία oikía [house, family] <G3614>,
οἰκεῖος oikeíos [member] <G3609>,
οικέω oikéō [to live, inhabit] <G3611>,
οἰκοδόμος oikodómos [builder] <G3618>,
οικοδομέω oikodoméō [to build, edify],
οἰκοδομή oikodomḗ [building, edifying] <G3619>,
ἐποικοδομέω epoikodoméō [to build on] <G2026>,
συνοικοδομέω synoikodoméō [to build together] <G4925>,
οἰκονόμος oikonómos [steward, manager] <G3623>,
οἰκονομία oikonomía [management, administration] <G3622>,
κατοικέω katoikéō [to dwell] <G2730>,
οικητήριον oikētḗrion [dwelling place] <G3613>,
κατοικητήριον katoikētḗrion [dwelling place] <G2732>,
κατοικίζω katoikízō [to make to dwell] <G2730>,
οἰκουμένη oikouménē [the inhabited world] <G3625>

katoikéō.

This common Greek word means “to dwell.” It often has a figurative sense, as in Philo, who speaks of man dwelling in God, or of the sage dwelling like an alien in the body but like a native in virtues. The NT uses the word transitively for “to inhabit” in Luke 13:4 and intransitively for “to dwell (in)” in Acts 1:20. The stock phrases “dwell upon earth” and “inhabit the earth” occur in Rev. 3:10; 6:10; 8:13; 17:2, etc. Figuratively demons dwell in humans (Matt. 12:45). God dwells in the heart (cf. 1 Cor. 3:16), God dwells in the temple (Matt. 23:21, though cf. Acts 7:48), Satan dwells where Antipas was killed (Rev. 2:13), Christ dwells in his people by faith (Eph. 3:17), the fullness of God dwells in Christ (Col. 1:19), the fullness of deity dwells in him bodily (2:9), and righteousness dwells in the new heaven and earth (2 Pet. 3:13). In Hermas God dwells in patience (Mandates 5.1.3), the Holy Spirit dwells in believers (5.2.5), and God causes the Spirit to dwell in a selected fleshly nature (Similitudes 5.6.5).

Bromiley, Geoffrey W., trans., Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich, ed. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament: Abridged in One Volume Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.

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