οἰκονομέω, ὀικονόμω; (οἰκονόμος); to be a steward; to manage the affairs of a household: absolutely, Luk_16:2. (Univ. to manage, dispense, order, regulate: Sophocles, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch, others; 2Ma_3:14.)

οἰκονομέω oikonomeō 1x to manage a household; to manage the affairs of any one, be steward, Luk_16:2 οἰκοδόμος oikodomos 1x a builder, architect, Act_4:11

οἰκονομέω , -ῶ ( <οἰκονόμος ), [in LXX : Psa_112:5 ( H3557 pilp .), 2Ma_3:14 * ;] to manage as house-steward, be a steward: absol. , Luk_16:2 ; hence, generally ( see οἰκονομία ), to manage, regulate, arrange ( cl ., 2Mac, Lc., 3Ma_3:2 R ).†

οἰκονομέω [page 442] The wide sense attaching to this verb with its corresponding subst. in late Greek is fully illustrated from Polybius by Dean Armitage Robinson on Eph_1:10 . We may add a few citations from the papyri. In PSI VI. 584 .17 (iii/B.C.) Agesilaus writes to Zeno asking him to make arrangements for the transport of certain quantities of barley and wheat in order that he may receive them εἰ δύνη <ι > οὖν μοι αὐτὰς οἰκονομήσασθ̣α̣ι ἵν [α ] α̣ὐτὰς ἀπεν̣ένκωμαι : cf. ib. 597 .8 (iii/B.C.) καλῶς ποιήσεις . . . οἰκονομησάμενος περὶ τῆς εἰσόδου , and BGU IV. 1209 .19 (B.C. 23) τοῖς ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν οἰκονομηθησομένοις . In P Eleph 9 .5 (B.C. 223 22) an official summons a subordinate to appear before him bringing with him all his writings and official documents κομίζων [π ]α̣ντα τὰ γράμματα καὶ [εἴ τι ἄλ ]λ̣ο̣ ὠικονόμηκ [ας ] κ̣αὶ ὧν̣ πεποίησαι δ̣ι̣αγραφῶν τὰ ἀντίγραφα , and in P Oxy IX. 1203 .27 (late i/A.D.) certain petitioners ask that their positions should be communicated to the collector of external debts in order that he may take no step against us . . before the trial of the case (Ed.) μηδὲν καθ᾽ ἡμῶν οἰκονομήσῃ μέχρι κρίσεως . In P Petr II. 11 (2) .2 (mid. iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 6) the verb is used for the administration of a sacred office or priesthood, γίνωσκέ με τὴν ἱεροποΐαν ὠικονομημέ [νον , and in ib. 38 ( c ) .60 (iii/B.C.) of the management of the details in some matter relating apparently to cowherds περὶ βούτων ὃν ἂν [τρό ]πον οἰκονομήθ [ηι . See also Preisigke 3925 .5 (ii/B.C.) τὰ πρὸς τ [ὴν ] κατάστασιν δικαιώματα καὶ ὃ [ν ] ἂν τρόπον οἰκονομήσαμεν .

οἰκονομέω οἰκονομέω, φυτ. -ήσω [Etym: οἰκονόμος] "to manage as a house steward, to manage, order, regulate", Soph. , Xen. metaph. of an artist, "to treat, handle" a subject, Arist. , Luc. intr. "to be a house-steward", NTest.

οἰκονομέω, -ῶ (οἰκονόμος), [in LXX: Psa.112:5 (כּוּל pilp.), 2Ma.3:14 * ;] to manage as house-steward, be a steward: absol., Luk.16:2; hence, generally (see: οἰκονομία), to manage, regulate, arrange (cl., 2Mac, Lc., 3Ma.3:2 R).† (AS)