Strong’s G3622 · Greek

οἰκονομία
oikonomía

Definition

administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) "economy"

Etymology

from G3623 (οἰκονόμος);

Where the KJV renders it

  • dispensation
  • stewardship

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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