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ἐποικοδομ-έω ,
A.build up, -ήσαντας αὐτὸ (sc. τὸ τεῖχος) “ὑψηλότερον” Th.7.4, cf. X.HG6.5.12, D.55.25 : metaph., pile up, use a climax, Arist.Rh.1365a16, Rh.Al.1426b3.
2. build upon, “ἐπὶ κρηπῖδι” X. An.3.4.11 ; “ἐπὶ κρηπῖδος” Pl.Lg.736e ; “ἐπὶ τοὺς τοίχους” OGI483.117 (Pergam., ii B.C.) : metaph., Pl.Lg.793c (Pass.) ; “φύσει μαθήματα” Ph.1.610 ; τινὶ εὐτονίαν, ἀσφάλειαν, Arr.Epict.2.15.8 (Pass.) ; ἐπὶ θεμέλιον or θεμελίῳ, 1 Ep.Cor.3.12, Ep.Eph.2.20 ; “θεμελίοις” Sor.1.47 (Pass.) ; “τοῖς ἀληθέσιν ἐψευσμένα” Paus.8.2.6, cf. Dam.Pr.87 (Pass.).
b. edify, “ἑαυτοὺς τῇ πίστει” Ep.Jud.20:—Pass., “-ούμενοι ἐν Χριστῷ” Ep.Col.2.7.
II. = ἐπιτειχίζω, Plb.2.46.5:—Med., “στρατόπεδα πέντε -ησάμενος” Arr.An.2.1.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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