οἰκουμέν-η
(i.e. γῆ), ἡ, inhabited region, see at {οἰκέω} [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; then the Greek world, opposed to barbarian lands, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 7.35; πᾶσα ἡ οἰ. [prev. author] 18.48; in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b26, ἡ οἰ.,] Refs 4th c.BC+] = the inhabited world (including non-Greek lands, as Ethiopia, India, Scythia), as opposed to possibly uninhabited regions,[[compare 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 2.1; in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 392b26, ἥδε ἡ οἰ.,] Refs 4th c.BC+] = our world (= Asia, Libya, Europe); οἰκουμέναι worlds,[[ [prev. work] 31; ἡ φιλία περιχορεύει τὴν οἰ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 52; σοῦ (i.e. Ptolemy 11 or 111) τῆς οἰ. πάσης βασιλεύοντος “PSI” 5.541.7, cf. LXX.1Esd.2.3 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; loosely, the whole world, [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Euxenippo” 33 (probably), 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 179, “PMag.Lond.” 121.704, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Halc.” 3, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.350a ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: so perhaps in some passages cited under [[ 11. ] Refs]
__II the Roman world, ὁ ἀγαθὸς δαίμων (etc.) τῆς οἰ., i.e. the Emperor, [[ “OGI” 666.4,668.5, “POxy.” 1021.5 (1st c.AD), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2581-2,4416, NT.Luke.2.1, NT.Act.17.6, 24.5, “Sammelb.” 176.2 (2nd c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.7, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Macr.” 7. ] NT+1st c.AD+]
__III ἡ οἰ. ἡ μέλλουσα the world to come, i.e. the kingdom of Christ, [[ NT.Heb.2.5. ] NT]