Sense

1. at one's own fireside, at home, a home of their own, sitting by the fireside, an inmate, guests
2. of or in the house or family, of the house, a household, family, the household, Penates, presiding over hospitality

Examples

• ἐλθὼν <δ’> ἐσ δόμουσ ἐφέστιοσ σκευῇ πρεπόντωσ σῶμ’ ἐμὸν καθάψομαι, κἀκεῖθεν ἥσω ναῦσ ἐπ’ Ἀργείων πόδα. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:2)
• ἐπεὶ δὲ τῆσ τύχησ εὐροούσησ ἐπαιρόμενοσ τοῖσ πράγμασι πολλὰσ μὲν ἀνέφυε καὶ μεγάλασ ἐπιθυμίασ, ἡ δ’ ἔμφυτοσ κακία, τὸν παρὰ φύσιν σχηματισμὸν ἐκβιαζομένη καὶ ἀναδύουσα, κατὰ μικρὸν ἀπεγύμνου καὶ διέφαινεν αὐτοῦ τὸ ἦθοσ, πρῶτον μὲν ἰδίᾳ τὸν νεώτερον Ἄρατον ἠδίκει περὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἐλάνθανεν ἐφέστιοσ ὢν καὶ ξενιζόμενοσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 49 1:1)
• καὶ μαρτυρήσων ἦλθον ‐ ἔστι γὰρ νόμῳ ἱκέτησ ὅδ’ ἁνὴρ καὶ δόμων ἐφέστιοσ ἐμῶν, φόνου δὲ τοῦδ’ ἐγὼ καθάρσιοσ ‐ καὶ ξυνδικήσων αὐτόσ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode5)
• Φλίασ δ’ αὖτ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν Ἀραιθυρέηθεν ἵκανεν, ἔνθ’ ἀφνειὸσ ἔναιε Διωνύσοιο ἕκητι, πατρὸσ ἑοῦ, πηγῇσιν ἐφέστιοσ Ἀσωποῖο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 3:6)
• αἴθε γὰρ εἰήν ἀπροφάτωσ τότε σοῖσιν ἐφέστιοσ ἐν μεγάροισιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 18:30)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.