λατρεία
latreía · G2999 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to perform religious rites, to worship, to venerate, worship
To perform religious rites as a part of worship
ExamplesJohn 16:2 “They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.
Romans 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and daughters, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the temple service, and the promises;
Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λογικόςrational 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπιτελέωto complete 1
- παρίστημιto stand by, to present 1
- προσφέρωto offer, to bring to 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δικαίωμαregulation 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh · H5656 · work, labor, service
- Greek λατρεία specifically denotes worship/religious service to God, while Hebrew עֲבֹדָה covers the broader semantic range of service/labor (including but not limited to cultic service); the cross-linguistic equivalence holds where עֲבֹדָה is used in its narrowed worship/temple-service register.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To perform religious rites, to worship, to venerate, worship53.14
- λατρεία names the service or worship rendered to God. Romans 9:4 lists among Israel's privileges “the adoption as sons and daughters, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the temple service, and the promises,” the λατρεία naming this sacred worship carried out at the temple.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root λατρεύω
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λατρείας, ἡ (λατρεύω, which see); 1. in Greek authors "service rendered for hire; then…
1. in Greek authors "service rendered for hire; then any service or ministration (Tragg., Plutarch, Lucian); the service of God": τοῦ Θεοῦ, Plato, Apology 23 b.; καταφυγεῖν πρός θεῶν εὐχάς τέ καί λατρείας, ibid. Phaedr., p. 244 e.;servitus religionis, quam λατρείανGraeci vocant, Augustine civ. dei 5, 15.
2. in the Greek Bible, the service or worship of God according to the requirements of the levitical law (Hebrew עֲבֹדָה, Ex 12:25f, etc.): Rom 9:4; Heb 9:1 (1 Macc. 2:19, 22); λατρείαν προσφέρειν τῷ Θεῷ (to offer service to God) equivalent to θυσίαν προσφέρειν εἰς λατρείαν (to offer a sacrifice in service), Jn 16:2; ἐπιτελεῖν τάς λατρείας, to perform the sacred services (see ἐπιτελέω, 1), spoken of the priests, Heb 9:6; universally, of any worship of God, ἡ λογικη λατρεία, Rom 12:1 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 59, 9 a.); (of the worship of idols, 1 Macc. 1:43).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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