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λειτουργικός

leitourgikós · G3010 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. serving

    (Derivative of λειτουργέω ‘to serve,’) Pertaining to service

    Examples

    Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word
שָׁרֵת shârêth · H8335 · service
Hebrew שָׁרֵת (shârêth, H8335) denotes ministerial service or the role/office of ministering, while Greek λειτουργικός (leitourgikós, G3010) emphasizes the functional or publicly-serving character of ministry; both terms describe service/ministry in religious contexts, with the Greek term highlighting the liturgical or public-service aspect that characterizes such ministry.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Serving35.24
λειτουργικός describes what is characterized by service. Hebrews 1:14 asks, “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” the λειτουργικὰ naming these angels as spirits whose very nature is service.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

λαός laós · G2992 · nation, people, people of God · 142×Λαοδίκεια Laodíkeia · G2993 · Laodicia, a place in Asia Minor · 6×λειτουργία leitourgía · G3009 · to serve, service, ministry · 6×λειτουργός leitourgós · G3011 · servant · 5×λειτουργέω leitourgéō · G3008 · to serve, service, to perform religious duties · 3×Λαοδικεύς Laodikeús · G2994 · a Laodicean · 1×λειτουργικόςleitourgikós · G3010
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λειτουργικη, λειτουργικον (λειτουργία), "relating to the performance of service, employed…
λειτουργικη, λειτουργικον (λειτουργία), "relating to the performance of service, employed in ministering: σκεύη, (Num 4:12),Num 4:26, etc.; στολαί, Ex 31:10, etc.; πνεύματα, of angels executing God's behests, Heb 1:14; also αἱ λειτουργικαι τοῦ Θεοῦ δυνάμεσι, Ignatius ad Philad. 9 [ET] (longer recension); τό πᾶν πλῆθος τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ, πῶς τῷ θελήματι αὐτοῦ λειτουργουσι παρεστῶτες, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 34, 5 [ET], cf. Daniel; (Theod.) . (Not found in secular authors)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Serve1 occurrence

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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