Quick Definition
a housekeeper
Strong's Definition
be "ware"); a stayer at home, i.e. domestically inclined (a "good housekeeper")
Derivation: from G3624 (οἶκος) and (a guard;
KJV Usage: keeper at home
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
οἰκουργός, ὀικουργον (οἶκος, ἘΡΓΩ (cf. ἔργον), cf. ἀμπελουργός, γεωργός, etc.), caring for the house, working at home: Tit_2:5 L T Tr WH; see the following word. Not found elsewhere.
STRONGS NT 3626: οἰκουρόςοἰκουρός, ὀικουρου, ὁ, ἡ (οἶκος, and οὐρός a keeper; see θυρωρός and κηπουρός);
a. properly, the (watch or) keeper of a house (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Pausanias, Plutarch, others).
b. tropically, keeping at home and taking care of household affairs, domestic: Tit_2:5 R G; cf. Fritzsche, De conformatione N. T. critica etc., p. 29; (Winers Grammar, 100f (95)); (Aeschylus Ag. 1626; Euripides, Hec. 1277; σώφρονας, οἰκουρούς καί φιλάνδρους, Philo de exsecr. § 4).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
not given
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* οἰκ -ουρός , -ον
( < οἶκος + οὖρος , a keeper);
1. watching or keeping the house; as subst ., ἡ οἰ ., a housekeeper ( Soph ., Eur .; v. LS , s.v. ).
2. keeping at home: Tit_2:5 , Rec. ( v. Field, Notes , 220 ff .; CGT , in l , and cf. οίκουργός ).†
*† οἰκουργός , -όν
( < οἶκος + root of ἔργον ),
working at home: Tit_2:5 ( Rec. οἰκουρός , q.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
οἰκουργός / οἰκουρός [page 443]
This adj. = house-worker, which is read in Tit_2:5 ΰ * ACD*G, is pronounced by Grimm-Thayer not found elsewhere, but Field ( Notes , p. 220) refers to Soranus of Ephesus, a medical writer (not earlier than ii/A.D.) from whose work Περὶ γυναικείων παθῶν (published at Berlin 1838) Boissonade quotes οἰκουργὸν καὶ καθέδριον ( sedentary ) διάγειν βίον , where οἰκουρόν would suit at least equally well. For the verb οἰκουργέω see Clem. Rom_1:1-32 with Lightfoot s note. The form οἰκουρός , keeper at home, read in ΰ c D c H, occurs in the magic P Lond 125 verso .11 (v/A.D.) (=I. p. 124) ἡ θεὸς ἡ καλο [υμ ]ένη οἰκουρός . See further Field ut s. and the citations in Wetstein ad l.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
οἰκουρός οἰκ-ουρός, όν [Etym: οὖρος] "watching the house", of a watchdog, Ar. as Subst., οἰκουρός, ἡ, "the mistress of the house, housekeeper", Eur. :—contemptuously of a man, "a stay-at-home", opp. to one who goes forth to war, Aesch. ; so, δίαιτα οἰκ. Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
οἰκ-ουρός, -ον
(οἶκος + οὖρος, a keeper)
__1. watching or keeping the house; as subst., ἡ οἰ., a housekeeper (Soph., Eur.; see LS, see word).
__2. keeping at home: Tit.2:5, Rec. (see Field, Notes, 220 ff.; CGT, in l, and cf. οίκουργός).†
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