Strong's Number 1247
Transliteration:
diakoneo
{dee-ak-on-eh'-o}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
2:81,152
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
minister unto 15, serve 10, minister 7, misc 5
Total: 37
Definition:
- ) to be a servant, attendant, domestic, to serve, wait upon
- to minister to one, render ministering offices to
- to be served, ministered unto
- to wait at a table and offer food and drink to the guests,
- of women preparing food
- to minister i.e. supply food and necessities of life
- to relieve one's necessities (e.g. by collecting alms), to provide take care of, distribute, the things necessary to sustain life
- to take care of the poor and the sick, who administer the office of a deacon
- in Christian churches to serve as deacons
- to minister
- to attend to anything, that may serve another's interests
- to minister a thing to one, to serve one or by supplying any thing