{"def":{"short":"a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively)","long":["a house",["an inhabited house, home","any building whatever",["of a palace","the house of God, the tabernacle"],"any dwelling place",["of the human body as the abode of demons that possess it","of tents, and huts, and later, of the nests, stalls, lairs, of animals","the place where one has fixed his residence, one's settled abode, domicile"]],"the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household",["the family of God, of the Christian Church, of the church of the Old and New Testaments"],"stock, race, descendants of one"]},"deriv":"of uncertain affinity","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈy.kos","ipa_mod":"ˈy.kows","sbl":"oikos","dic":"OO-kose","dic_mod":"OO-kose"}}