Strong G3626οἰκουρός
busy at home
- Transliteration
- oikouros
- Pronunciation
- oy-koo-ros'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G3624 and οὖρος ouros (a guard; be ware); a stayer at home that is domestically inclined (a good housekeeper): - keeper at home.
Detailed definition
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).†
(AS)
(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).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3626 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- home1
First verses
- Titus 2:5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
οἰκουρός, όν,
(οὖρος B) watching or keeping the house, of a watch-dog, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 970)]; of a cock, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.998b)]; οἰ. ὄφις, of the sacred serpent in the Acropolis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 759, 3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 72 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II keeping at home: as substantive, οἰκουρός, ἡ, mistress of the house, housekeeper, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 487, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1277)]: as adjective, [Refs 5th c.AD+ ([prev. author] “HF” 45 (_masculine_); ἡ θεὸς ἡ καλουμένη οἰ. “PLond.” 1.125v. 11 (5th c.AD))]; used in praise of a good wife, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.431, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 56.3.)]
II.2 contemptuously of a man, stay-at-home, opposed to one who goes forth to war, λέοντ᾽ ἄναλκιν.. οἰκουρόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1225, compare 1626, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.82; τὸν ὑγρὸν τοῦτον καὶ οἰ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.751a; δίαιτα οἰ. καὶ ἀργή [prev. author] “Per.” 34.)]
(οὖρος B) watching or keeping the house, of a watch-dog, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 970)]; of a cock, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.998b)]; οἰ. ὄφις, of the sacred serpent in the Acropolis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 759, 3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 72 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II keeping at home: as substantive, οἰκουρός, ἡ, mistress of the house, housekeeper, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 487, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1277)]: as adjective, [Refs 5th c.AD+ ([prev. author] “HF” 45 (_masculine_); ἡ θεὸς ἡ καλουμένη οἰ. “PLond.” 1.125v. 11 (5th c.AD))]; used in praise of a good wife, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.431, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 56.3.)]
II.2 contemptuously of a man, stay-at-home, opposed to one who goes forth to war, λέοντ᾽ ἄναλκιν.. οἰκουρόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1225, compare 1626, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.82; τὸν ὑγρὸν τοῦτον καὶ οἰ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.751a; δίαιτα οἰ. καὶ ἀργή [prev. author] “Per.” 34.)]