one's own/private
idios marks what belongs to a particular person or group, including personal possessions, associates, affairs, and private settings.
The term most often marks something as belonging to, connected with, or characteristic of a particular person or group: bodies, households, spouses, work, sheep, and desires are presented as their particular possessors’ or participants’ own. It also occurs in settings conducted separately or privately, and in clauses that assign matters to a particular individual, order, kind, or time.
Senses in use
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Belonging to a particular person or group · dominant
The forms identify possessions, relations, or associated people as belonging specifically to someone: in 1 Corinthians 7:4 the APB renders the contrast over a wife's and husband's body, and in 1 Timothy 3:4 it renders the management of a household. In John 10:3 and John 10:4, the plural neuter form occurs in clauses where the shepherd calls and leads the sheep identified as his.
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Separate or private action and setting · common
The feminine accusative singular form appears in scenes set apart from a larger public interaction. In Acts 23:19 the APB renders the officer's withdrawal as "privately," while in Galatians 2:2 it renders the presentation before those of repute as done "privately"; Luke 10:23 likewise places Jesus' speech to the disciples in a separate setting.
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Assigned to each particular case · common
The term marks allocation or timing as specific to its recipient or setting. In 1 Corinthians 12:11 the dative singular feminine form occurs as the Spirit distributes to each person, and in 1 Corinthians 15:23 the dative singular neuter form accompanies the sequence in which each has an order. In 1 Corinthians 15:38, each kind of seed receives the body assigned to it.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses "own" for personal possession or association, while it renders separate settings as "privately" and some allocations as "individually," "proper," or "due." Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English variations reflect whole clauses rather than fixed renderings of the term.