3622 - oikonomia

Strong's Concordance

Original word: οἰκονομία
Transliteration: oikonomia
Definition (short): administration
Definition (full): stewardship, administration

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from oikonomeó
Definition: stewardship, administration
NASB Translation: administration (3), management (3), stewardship (3).
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From oikonomos; administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) "economy" -- dispensation, stewardship.

see GREEK oikonomos

KJV: And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
NASB: "And he called 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.'
KJV: Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
NASB: "The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
KJV: I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
NASB: 'I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'
KJV: For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
NASB: For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
KJV: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
NASB: with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him