Strong's Number G3623

οἰκονόμος

oikonomos · oy-kon-om'-os

Transliteration:

oikonomos{oy-kon-om'-os}

Word Origin:

from 3624 and the base of 3551

TDNT:

5:149,674

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Strong's Definition:

a house-distributor (i.e. manager), or overseer, i.e. an employee in that capacity; by extension, a fiscal agent (treasurer); figuratively, a preacher (of the Gospel)

Usage in the KJV:

steward 8, chamberlain 1, governor 1

Total: 10
Occurs 10 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

the manager of household or of household affairs
1. esp. a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born or as was usually the case, a freed-man or a slave) to whom the head of the house or proprietor has intrusted the management of his affairs, the care of receipts and expenditures, and the duty of dealing out the proper portion to every servant and even to the children not yet of age
2. the manager of a farm or landed estate, an overseer
3. the superintendent of the city's finances, the treasurer of a city (or of treasurers or quaestors of kings)
metaph. the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers