Strong's #3623: oikonomos (pronounced oy-kon-om'-os)

from 3624 and the base of 3551; 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):--chamberlain, governor, steward.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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oikonomos

1) the manager of household or of household affairs

1a) especially a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born 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

1b) the manager of a farm or landed estate, an overseer

1c) the superintendent of the city' s finances, the treasurer of a city (or of treasurers or quaestors of kings)

2) metaphorically the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G3624 and the base of G3551

Citing in TDNT: 5:149, 674

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Luke 12:42: "that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over"
Luke 16:1: "man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him"
Luke 16:3: "Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do?"
Luke 16:8: "commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for"
Romans 16:23: "you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you,"
1 Corinthians 4:1: "of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God."
1 Corinthians 4:2: "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found"
Galatians 4:2: "under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the"
Titus 1:7: "be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not"
1 Peter 4:10: "one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."