οἰκονομέω
oikonoméō · G3621 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to manage a household, to run a household, to be in charge of a household
To manage and provide for a household
ExamplesLuke 16:2 “And he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔτιstill 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δύναμαιcan 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- פָּקַד pâqad · H6485 · to observe, to visit, to inspect
- פָּקַד in its administrative sense of 'to appoint, oversee, muster' corresponds to the management/oversight aspect of οἰκονομέω. The Piel form particularly denotes appointing someone over something, and the verb is used for administrative oversight (e.g., Gen 39:4-5 where Joseph is appointed over Potiphar's house).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To manage a household, to run a household, to be in charge of a household46.1
- In the parable of the unjust steward, Luke 16:2 states the master said, “What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager,” where the underlying verb rendered here as “be manager” is this same word.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀικονόμω; (οἰκονόμος); to be a steward; to manage the affairs of a household: absolutely,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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