οἰκονομία

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A management of a household or family, husbandry, thrift, Pl.Ap.36b, R.498a, X.Oec.1.1, Arist.EN1141b32, Pol.1253b2 sqq. : pl., Pl.R.407b ; households, Arist.GA744b18.    2 generally, direction, regulation, Epicur.Ep.1p.29U. ; esp. of a State, administration, αἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν οἰ. Din.1.97 ; principles of government, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.338 ; τῶν γεγονότων Plb.1.4.3, al. ; πολιτικὴ οἰ. Phld.Rh. 2.32 S. ; ἡ τῆς ἀρχῆς οἰ. Hdn.6.1.1 ; of a fund, SIG577.9 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.).    3 arrangement, ἡ περὶ τὸν νοσέοντα οἰ. Hp.Epid.6.2.24 ; ἡ περὶ τῶν ὠνίων οἰ. market, fair, SIG695.35 (Magn. Mae.) ; οἰκονομίαι proceedings, IG9(1).226 (Drymaea) ; τίνα οἰκονομίαν προσαγήγοχας what steps you have taken, PCair.Zen.240.10 (iii B. C.) ; αὕτη φύσεως οἰ. Plb.6.9.10 ; of a literary work, arrangement, ἡ κατὰ μέρος οἰ. D.S.5.1, cf. D.H.Pomp.4, Comp.25, Sch.Od.1.328 : pl., Plu.2.142a.    4 in Egypt, office of οἰκονόμος, PTeb.24.62 (ii B.C.), al.    5 stewardship, LXX Is.22.19, Ev.Luc.16.2.    6 plan, dispensation, Ep.Eph.1.10, 3.2.    7 in bad sense, scheming, M.Ant. 4.51.    II public revenue of a state, BMus.Inscr.897.14, al. (Halic., iii B.C.).    III transaction, contract, or legal instrument, CPR4.1 (i A. D.), BGU457.10 (ii A. D.), etc.    IV magical operation or process, PMag.Par.1.161,292,2009.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

οἰκονομία: ἡ, διοίκησις ἢ ἐπιστασία οἴκου, οἰκονομία, φειδώ, Πλάτ. Ἀπολογ. 36Β, Πολ. 498Α, Ξεν. Οἰκ. 1. 1, Ἀριστ. Ἠθικ. Νικ. 6. 8, 3, Πολιτικ. 1. 3-13· ἐν τῷ πληθ., Πλάτ. Πολ. 407Β, Ἀριστ. π. Ζ. Γενέσεως 2. 6, 42. 2) ἐπὶ πόλεως, διοίκησις, κυβέρνησις, οἰκ. αἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν Δείναρχ. 102. 29, συχνάκις παρὰ Πολυβ. 3) ἐπὶ ποιήματος, διευθέτησις τῆς ὕλης, Σχόλ. εἰς Ὀδ. Α. 328· ἐν τῷ πληθ., Πλούτ. 2. 142Α. ΙΙ. τὸ δημόσιον εἰσόδημα πόλεως, τὰ ἔσοδα, Newton Ἐπιγρ. Ἁλικαρν. 3. 13 κἑξ.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ας (ἡ) :
1 direction d’une maison, administration des affaires d’une maison;
2 p. ext. organisation, ordonnance, distribution.
Étymologie: οἰκονόμος.

Spanish

operación mágica , procedimiento mágico

English (Strong)

from οἰκονόμος; administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) "economy": dispensation, stewardship.

English (Thayer)

οἰκονομίας, ἡ (οἰκονομέω), from Xenophon, and Plato down, "the management of a household or of household affairs; specifically, the management, oversight, administration, of others' property; the office of a manager or overseer, stewardship": ἡ, οἰκονομία τοῦ Θεοῦ, the office of administrator (stewardship) intrusted by God, administration, dispensation, which in a theocratic sense is ascribed to God himself as providing for man's salvation: αἵτινες ... ἡ οἰκονομίαν Θεοῦ τήν ἐν πίστει, which furnish matter for disputes rather than the (knowledge of the) dispensation of the things by which God has provided for and prepared salvation, which salvation must be embraced by faith, L T Tr WH; ἥν προέθετο ... καιρῶν, which good will he purposed to show with a view to (that) dispensation (of his) by which the times (namely, of infancy and immaturity cf. ἡ οἰκονομία τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ τῆς δοθείσης μοι, that dispensation (or arrangement) by which the grace of God was granted me, ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ μυστηρίου, the dispensation by which he carried out his secret purpose, G L T Tr WH.