οἰκονόμος
steward
‘steward’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3623 appears in the Book of Galatians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun οικονομος centers on the idea of “steward.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 12:42. Spanning 10 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 4 of 10 verses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3623 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 4 verses 40%
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 20%
- Romans 1 verse 10%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 4 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 40%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Steward 5×, Stewards 3×
- American Standard Version: Steward 4×, Stewards 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Manager 4×, Stewards 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Manager 4×, Stewards 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3623 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3623 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3623 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3623 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the manager of household or of household affairs
- metaph. the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers
Word origin
Derived from οικος (oîkos) (G3624) — house.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3623 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκονόμον oikonómon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:1 | 3 |
| οἰκονόμος oikonómos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 12:42 | 3 |
| οἰκονόμους oikonómous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 4:1 | 2 |
| οἰκονόμοι oikonómoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Peter 4:10 | 1 |
| οἰκονόμοις oikonómois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 4:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3623, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- οικειος oikeîos G3609 domestic
- οικεω oikéō G3611 to dwell in
- οικια oikía G3614 house
- οικοδεσποτης oikodespótēs G3617 householder
- οικοδομη oikodomḗ G3619 building
- οικουρος oikourós G3626 domestic
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οικονομος appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 5 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 4:6 οἰκονόμος
- 2 Kings 18:18 οἰκονόμος
- 1 Chronicles 29:6 οἰκονόμος
- Esther 1:8 οἰκονόμος
- Isaiah 36:3 οἰκονόμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3623) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 4:6 οἰκονόμος and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
- 1 Kings 16:9 οἰκονόμος His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:
- 1 Kings 18:3 οἰκονόμος Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:
- 2 Kings 18:18 οἰκονόμος When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
- 2 Kings 18:37 οἰκονόμος Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
- 2 Kings 19:2 οἰκονόμος He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- 1 Chronicles 29:6 οἰκονόμος Then the princes of the fathers' [houses], and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
- Esther 1:8 οἰκονόμος The drinking was according to the law; none could compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
- Esther 8:9 οἰκονόμος Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Isaiah 36:3 οἰκονόμος Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
- Isaiah 36:22 οἰκονόμος Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
- Isaiah 37:2 οἰκονόμος He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3623) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
