busy at home
Usage:
Not a primary reference, possibly a variation
Morphhology:
Greek Adjective
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)
Morphhology:
Greek Adjective
Definition:
οἰκουρός, όν, (οὖρος B)
watching or
keeping the house, of a watch-dog, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a cock, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; οἰ. ὄφις, of the sacred serpent in the Acropolis, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II)
keeping at home: as
substantive, οἰκουρός, ἡ,
mistress of the house, housekeeper, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: as
adjective, [
Refs 5th c.AD+]; used in praise of a good wife, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2) contemptuously of a man,
stay-at-home, opposed to one who goes forth to war, λέοντ᾽ ἄναλκιν. οἰκουρόν [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
Pronounciation:
oy-koo-ros'
Definition:
be "ware"); a stayer at home, i.e. domestically inclined (a "good housekeeper"); keeper at home; from
g3624 (οἶκος) and (a guard