oikonomia · management, stewardship

What it means

oikonomia (οἰκονομία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “management, stewardship”.

Management of a household or estate, stewardship; the office of manager; also an arrangement or plan, God's way of ordering things.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The job of looking after someone's house or goods.
2. The plan by which God directs things, and the task he entrusts.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• administration ×5
• management ×3
• stewardship ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×3
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×3
• Colossians×1
• 1 Timothy×1

• Luke 16:2

  And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

• Luke 16:3

  And the manager said within himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

• Luke 16:4

  I know what I will do, so that, when I am removed from the management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

• 1 Corinthians 9:17

  For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

• Ephesians 1:10

  for the administration of the fullness of the times: to bring together under one head all things in the Messiah, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in him,

• Ephesians 3:2

  if indeed you have heard of the administration of the grace of God that was given to me for you,

• Ephesians 3:9

  and to bring to light for all what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God, who created all things,

• Colossians 1:25

  of which I became a servant according to the administration of God that was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

• 1 Timothy 1:4

  nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which provide speculations rather than God’s administration that is in faith, so do now.