Quick Definition
Imanage ahousehold
Strong's Definition
to be the head of (i.e. rule) a family
Derivation: from G3617 (οἰκοδεσπότης);
KJV Usage: guide the house
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
οἰκοδεσποτέω, ὀικοδεσπότω; (οἰκοδεσπότης); to be master (or head) of a house; to rule a household, manage family affairs: 1Ti_5:14. (A later Greek word; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 373.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
οἰκοδεσποτέω oikodespoteō 1x
pr. to be master of a household; to occupy one s self in the management of a household, 1Ti_5:14
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
οἰκο -δεσποτέω , -ῶ
( < οἰκοδεσπότης ),
to rule a household: 1Ti_5:14 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
οἰκοδεσποτέω [page 441]
This late Greek verb (cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 373), which in the NT is confined to 1Ti_5:14 , occurs in the horoscopes P Oxy II. 235 .16 (A.D. 20 50) οἰκοδεσποτεῖ Ἀφροδ [ίτη , P Lond 130 .163 (i/ii A.D.) (= I. p. 137) δι᾽ ὃ οἰκοδεσποτήσει τὸ διάθεμα .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
οἰκοδεσποτέω οἰκοδεσποτέω, "to be master of the house, to rule the household", NTest. [Etym: from οἰκοδεσπότης]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
οἰκο-δεσποτέω, -ῶ
(οἰκοδεσπότης)
to rule a household: 1Ti.5:14.†
(AS)