oikourgas

Strong’sG3626

a housekeeper

stem oikourg-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

*† οἰκουργός, -όν

(< οἶκος + root of ἔργον),

working at home: Tit 2:5 (Rec. οἰκουρός, q.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3626 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidoy-koo-ros'

be "ware"); a stayer at home, i.e. domestically inclined (a "good housekeeper")

Fromfrom G3624 and οὖρος (a guard;

King Jameskeeper at home.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

οἰκουρός, όν,
(οὖρος B) watching or keeping the house, of a watch-dog, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a cock, Refs 1st c.AD+; οἰ. ὄφις, of the sacred serpent in the Acropolis, Refs 5th c.BC+
II keeping at home: as substantive, οἰκουρός, ἡ, mistress of the house, housekeeper, Refs 5th c.BC+: as adjective, Refs 5th c.AD+; used in praise of a good wife, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 contemptuously of a man, stay-at-home, opposed to one who goes forth to war, λέοντ᾽ ἄναλκιν.. οἰκουρόν Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

busy at home1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	oikourgos	oikourgas	oikourgem	oikourgois	oikourgais	oikourgeim
object accusative	oikourgon	oikourgan		oikourgoin	oikourgain1×οἰκουργούς
direct address vocative	oikourgor	oikourgar		oikourgoir	oikourgair
of, belonging to genitive	oikourgou	oikourgau	oikourgeu	oikourgoiu	oikourgaiu	oikourgeiu
to, for dative	oikourgo	oikourga	oikourge	oikourgoi	oikourgai	oikourgei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

oikourgstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

oikourg is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

oikourgain“busy at home”objectaccusative plural1×

Titus 2:5“busy at home”sōfronain, hagnain, oikourgain, agathain, hupotassorōntain toi idioi androi, hina …to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word …