Bible Dictionary: Manage

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

2. (n.) To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

3. (n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

4. (n.) To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

5. (n.) To treat with care; to husband.

6. (n.) To bring about; to contrive.

7. (v. i.) To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

Greek

3621. oikonomeo -- to be a steward, to manage
... to be a steward, to manage. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: oikonomeo Phonetic
Spelling: (oy-kon-om-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am a steward Definition: I ...
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3616. oikodespoteo -- to rule a household
... to rule a household. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: oikodespoteo Phonetic
Spelling: (oy-kod-es-pot-eh'-o) Short Definition: I manage a household ...
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3623. oikonomos -- the manager of a household
... Word Origin from oikos and nemo (to manage) Definition the manager of a household
NASB Word Usage manager (3), managers (1), steward (2), stewards (3 ...
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4291b. proistemi -- to put before, to set over, to rule
... Origin from pro and histemi Definition to put before, to set over, to rule NASB
Word Usage engage (2), have charge over (1), leads (1), manage (1), managers (1 ...
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4231. pragmateuomai -- to busy oneself
... 4231 () means "turning something over," making a good trade -- ie "to good
account . . to administrate, manage profitably the capital at your disposal ...
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Library

Through-The-Week Activities for Boys' Organized Classes
... Physical Service". Organize and manage Boys' Baseball Nine. Organize and manage
Boys' Football Eleven. Organize and manage Boys' Basket-ball Five. ...
/.../the boy and the sunday school/x through-the-week activities for boys.htm

What it Means to Trust the Lord
... Thus, he would have to manage both his wife and the horse, making his task
doubly difficult. How many of us are just like that woman! ...
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Through all this Chaos, Then we Come Back once More to Our Main ...
... Out of all this throng of theories it must somehow select a theory; out of all these
thundering voices it must manage to hear a voice; out of all this awful ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 36 through all this.htm

In the Quarrel Earlier Alluded to Between the Energetic ...
... He must manage to endure somehow the idea of a woman being womanly, which does not
mean soft and yielding, but handy, thrifty, rather hard, and very humorous. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 44 in the quarrel.htm

General and Public Concernments Seem at First Unmanageable
... seem at first unmanageable, by reason of their greatness; but in the soul there
is such a secret sufficiency, that it is able upon trial, to manage all objects ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/97 general and public concernments.htm

A Question on the Training in Perfection by which we Can Arrive at ...
... For how could any boy manage to pronounce the simplest union of syllables unless
he had first carefully learnt the letters of the alphabet? ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter viii a question on.htm

The Separation of the Provinces, 1857-1899.
... (e) To nominate and appoint Bishops. (f) To manage the Church's Foreign Missions
and Educational Work. (g) To inspect the Church's general finances. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter vii the separation of.htm

When Diamond Went Home to Breakfast, He Found his Father and ...
... "I'll manage that," said his mother; and so it was agreed that Diamond should go
to Sandwich. ... I had to contrive a bit, and manage the waves a little. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 9 when diamond went.htm

Mission Tours.
... Natives, when they travel, as I have already mentioned, manage things in a fashion
which we are not able to imitate, but which I have often been inclined to ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xiv mission tours.htm

Christian Stewardship.
... We are stewards; and a steward is one who is employed to manage the concerns of
another"his household, money or estate. We are God's stewards. ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter ii christian stewardship.htm

Thesaurus

Manage (6 Occurrences)
...Manage (6 Occurrences). ... 1 Timothy 3:5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his
own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), (YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Steward (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic
concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep ...
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Vestry (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial
affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... any state by action or motion. 22. (vt) To influence by acting upon; to
prevail upon; to manage; to lead. 23. (vt) To form with a ...
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Wield (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To use with full command or power; to manage;
to handle; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter. ...
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Treat (53 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self
toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. ...
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Ride (31 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To be supported in motion; to rest. 5. (vi) To manage a horse, as an
equestrian. ... 8. (vt) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. ...
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Behave (18 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To manage or govern in point of behavior;
to discipline; to handle; to restrain. 2. (vt) To carry ...
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Manaen (1 Occurrence)

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Handle (19 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage
skillfully. ... 7. (vt) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. ...
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Bible Concordance

Manage (6 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 3:4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 3:5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),
(YLT NAS RSV)

1 Timothy 3:12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 5:14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
(See NIV)

Judges 12:6 then said they to him, "Now say'Shibboleth;'" and he said "Sibboleth;" for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold of him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
(WEB)

Jeremiah 12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Manage

Related Terms

Steward (23 Occurrences)

Vestry (1 Occurrence)

Work (4564 Occurrences)

Wield (8 Occurrences)

Treat (53 Occurrences)

Ride (31 Occurrences)

Behave (18 Occurrences)

Manaen (1 Occurrence)

Handle (19 Occurrences)