Qualifications for Elders


3623 - STEWARD / MANAGER -

3623 oikonomos (oy-kon-om'-os)

from 3624 and the base of 3551;
AV-steward 8, chamberlain 1, governor 1; 10
1) the manager of household or of household affairs
1a) esp. a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born or as was usually the case, a freed-man or a slave) to whom the head of the house or proprietor has intrusted the management of his affairs, the care of receipts and expenditures, and the duty of dealing out the proper portion to every servant and even to the children not yet of age
1b) the manager of a farm or landed estate, an overseer
1c) the superintendent of the city's finances, the treasurer of a city (or of treasurers or quaestors of kings)
2) metaph. the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers
NEW TESTAMENT USAGE

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward <3623>, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Luke 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward <3623>; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Luke 16:3 Then the steward <3623> said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward <3623>, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Romans 16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain <3623> of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards <3623> of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards <3623>, that a man be found faithful.

Galatians 4:2 But is under tutors and governors <3623> until the time appointed of the father.

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward <3623> of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards <3623> of the manifold grace of God.