Oikonomeo means “be steward” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3621 — kelubay (“Chelubai”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3621 οἰκονομέω (oikonomeo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. oikonomeo (oy-kon-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to manage (a house, i.e. an estate) [from G3623] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include steward. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
oikonomeo (oy-kon-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to manage (a house, i.e. an estate) [from G3623] KJV: be steward Root(s): G3623
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3621. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to manage
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render oikonomeo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3621 (οἰκονομέω) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
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.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The good man is he that pities and lends: He will direct his affairs with judgment.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.
While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3621.
The good man is he that pities and lends: He will direct his affairs with judgment.
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.
So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.
While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3621, grouped by book.
Oikonomeo (Strong's G3621) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be steward". oikonomeo (oy-kon-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to manage (a house, i.e. an estate) [from G3623]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G3621 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3621 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as steward. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3621, with linked reader references where each row is available.