Oikonomia means “dispensation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3622 — keluhay (“Chelluh”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3622 οἰκονομίας is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. oikonomia (oy-kon-om-ee'-ah) n. 1. administration (of a household or estate) 2. (specially) a (religious) "economy" It has 10 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include dispensation and stewardship. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
oikonomia (oy-kon-om-ee'-ah) n. 1. administration (of a household or estate) 2. (specially) a (religious) "economy" [from G3623] KJV: dispensation, stewardship Root(s): G3623
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3622. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
management
Usage: οἰκονομία, -ας, ἡ (οἰκονομέω), [in LXX: Isa.22:19, 21 (מַצָּב, מֶמְשָׁלָה)* ;] __1. prop. (Plat., Arist.), the office of οἰκονόμος, stewardship: Luk.16:2-4. __2. In later writers (Plut., al.; see AR on Eph.1:10; MM, xviii), generally, administration, dispensation: 1Co.9:17, Eph.1:10 3:2, 9, Col.1:25, 1Ti.1:4.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G3622, 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 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 G3622 (οἰκονομίας) appears 2 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.
8 indexed usages 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.
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.
and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3622.
And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.
and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.
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.
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3622, grouped by book.
Oikonomia (Strong's G3622) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dispensation". oikonomia (oy-kon-om-ee'-ah) n. 1. administration (of a household or estate) 2. (specially) a (religious) "economy"
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G3622 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3622 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dispensation and stewardship. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3622, with linked reader references where each row is available.