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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

administrator (Aristot., Rhet. 3, 3 p. 1406a, 27 οἰκ. τῆς τῶν ἀκουόντων ἡδονῆς; Tat. 9, 3 τῆς εἱμαρμένης οἰκ.) of the administrators of divine things (Βαροὺχ ὁ οἰκ. τῆς πίστεως ParJer 7:2; of an office in the Serapeum UPZ 56, 7 [160 B.C.]; religious associations also had οἰκ.: OGI 50, 12; 51, 26): the apostles are οἰκονόμοι μυστηρίων θεοῦ administrators of God’s secret counsels/plans 1 Cor 4:1. So the overseer of a Christian community must conduct himself as a θεοῦ οἰκ. Tit