Definition

be "ware"); a stayer at home, i.e. domestically inclined (a "good housekeeper")

Etymology

from G3624 (οἶκος) and (a guard;

Word family

• οἶκος oîkos

How the KJV renders it

• keeper at home

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.