1) the manager of household or of household affairs 1a) especially a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born 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) metaphorically the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G3624 and the base of G3551 |