- οἰκονόμος
- οἰκονόμος, ου, ὁ (οἶκος, νέμω ‘manage’; Aeschyl.+; ins, pap, LXX; TestJos 12:3 [mss. bdg]; ParJer 7:2; Philo, Praem. 113; Joseph.; Just.. D. 125, 2; Tat.; loanw. in rabb.)① manager of a household or estate, (house) steward, manager (Diod S 36, 5, 1) ὁ πιστὸς οἰκ. ὁ φρόνιμος Lk 12:42. Sim. ζητεῖται ἐν τοῖς οἰκ. ἵνα πιστός τις εὑρεθῇ 1 Cor 4:2. He manages his master’s property (cp. Jos., Ant. 12, 200; Artem. 4, 28. The οἰκ. of various persons are mentioned in the pap: PTebt 402, 1; POxy 929, 25; οἰκ. of female employers, s. New Docs, end of entry) Lk 16:1, 3. ὁ οἰκ. τῆς ἀδικίας the dishonest manager (cp. Lucian, Ep. Sat. 2, 26 ὁ οἰκ. ὑφελόμενος; ÉDelebecque, Études grecques sur l’Évangile de Luc ’76, 89–97) vs. 8 (s. on the ‘unjust steward’ Jülicher, Gleichn. 495–514; LFonck, D. Parabel3 1919 [lit. here 675f]; ARücker, Bibl. Studien XVII/5, 1912; JKögel, BFCT XVIII/6, 1914; ERiggenbach, Schlatter Festschr. 1922, 17ff; FTillmann, BZ 9, 1911, 171–84; GKrüger, ibid. 21, ’33, 170–81; FHüttermann, ThGl 27, ’35, 739–42; HPreisker, TLZ 74, ’49, 85–92; JJeremias, Gleichnisse Jes2 ’52, 30–33; JDerrett, Law in the NT, ’70, 48–77; DFletcher, JBL 82, ’63, 15–30; JFitzmyer, Theological Studies 25, ’64, 23–42; DIreland, Stewardship and the Kingdom of God: An Historical, Exegetical, and Contextual Study of the Parable of the Unjust Steward in Luke 16:1–3 ’92). With ἐπίτροπος Gal 4:2 (SBelkin, JBL 54, ’35, 52–55).② public treasurer, treasurer ὁ οἰκ. τῆς πόλεως the city treasurer (SIG 1252 πόλεως Κῴων οἰκονόμος; other exx. in PLandvogt, Epigr. Untersuchungen üb. den οἰκονόμος, diss. Strassb. 1908; HCadbury, JBL 50, ’31, 47ff) Ro 16:23.③ one who is entrusted with management in connection with transcendent matters, administrator (Aristot., Rhet. 3, 3 p. 1406a, 27 οἰκ. τῆς τῶν ἀκουόντων ἡδονῆς; Tat. 9, 3 τῆς εἱμαρμένης οἰκ.) of the administrators of divine things (Βαροὺχ ὁ οἰκ. τῆς πίστεως ParJer 7:2; of an office in the Serapeum UPZ 56, 7 [160 B.C.]; religious associations also had οἰκ.: OGI 50, 12; 51, 26): the apostles are οἰκονόμοι μυστηρίων θεοῦ administrators of God’s secret counsels/plans 1 Cor 4:1. So the overseer of a Christian community must conduct himself as a θεοῦ οἰκ. Tit 1:7. But Christians gener. are also θεοῦ οἰκ. (καὶ πάρεδροι καὶ ὑπηρέται) IPol 6:1 or καλοὶ οἰκ. ποικίλης χάριτος θεοῦ good administrators of God’s varied grace 1 Pt 4:10 (cp. X., Mem. 3, 4, 7 οἱ ἀγαθοὶ οἰκ.).—JReumann, JBL 77, ’58, 339–49 (pre-Christian), ‘Jesus the Steward’, TU 103, ’68, 21–29.—New Docs 4, 160f. DELG s.v. νέμω. M-M. EDNT. TW. Spicq. Sv.
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