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Strong's #3622 - οἰκονομία
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οἰκονομ-ία, ἡ,
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1. management of a household or family, husbandry, thrift, Pl. Ap. 36b, R. 498a, X. Oec. 1.1, Arist. EN 1141b32, Pol. 1253b2 sqq.: pl., Pl. R. 407b; households, Arist. GA 744b18.
2. generally, direction, regulation, Epicur. Ephesians 1 p.29U.; esp. of a State, administration, αἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν οἰ. Din. 1.97; principles of government, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.338; τῶν γεγονότων Plb. 1.4.3, al.; πολιτικὴ οἰ. Phld. Rh. 2.32 S.; ἡ τῆς ἀρχῆς οἰ. Hdn. 6.1.1; of a fund, SIG 577.9 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.).
3. arrangement, ἡ περὶ τὸν νοσέοντα οἰ. Hp. Epid. 6.2.24; ἡ περὶ τῶν ὠνίων οἰ. market, fair, SIG 695.35 (Magn. Mae.); οἰκονομίαι proceedings, IG 9(1).226 (Drymaea); τίνα οἰκονομίαν προσαγήγοχας what steps you have taken, PCair.Zen. 240.10 (iii B. C.); αὕτη φύσεως οἰ. Plb. 6.9.10; of a literary work, arrangement, ἡ κατὰ μέρος οἰ. D.S. 5.1, cf. D.H. Pomp. 4, Comp. 25, Sch. Od. 1.328: pl., Plu. 2.142a.
4. in Egypt, office of οἰκονόμος, PTeb. 24.62 (ii B.C.), al.
5. stewardship, LXX Isaiah 22:19, Luke 16:2.
6. plan, dispensation, Ephesians 1:10, Ephesians 3:2.
7. in bad sense, scheming, M.Ant. 4.51.
II public revenue of a state, BMus.Inscr. 897.14, al. (Halic., iii B.C.).
III transaction, contract, or legal instrument, CPR 4.1 (i A. D.), BGU 457.10 (ii A. D.), etc. magical operation or process, PMag.Par. 1.161,292,2009.
οἰκονομία , -ας , ἡ
(< οἰκονομέω ),
[in LXX: Isaiah 22:19; Isaiah 22:21 (H4673, H4475)*;]
1. prop. (Plat., Arist.), the office of οἰκονόμος , stewardship: Luke 16:2-4.
2. In later writers (Plut., al.; v. AR on Ephesians 1:10; MM, xviii), generally, administration, dispensation: 1 Corinthians 9:17, Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 3:2; Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:25, 1 Timothy 1:4.†
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P Fay 108.10 (c. A.D. 171) ὑπὸ τὸν ὄρθρον, ";about dawn,"; the same phrase as in Acts 5:21 : cf. P Flor III. 305.11 (iv/A.D.) ὄρθρου, ";di buon mattino"; (Ed.).
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