διακονέω diakoneō

Greek word for “to serve” · Strong’s G1247 · used 37 times in 32 verses

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Meaning

διακονέω, ῶ; (δίακονος);

How it is translated

Glosses given for diakoneō in context, with how often each is used:

• ministering 9
• serving 6
• served 3
• serve 2
• shall serve 2
• being administered 2
• did minister 1
• serve? 1
• will serve 1
• do serve 1
• serving? 1
• attend 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 1 (2), Luke 22 (2), John 12 (2), 2 Corinthians 8 (2), 1 Timothy 3 (2), 1 Peter 4 (2), Matthew 4 (1), Matthew 8 (1), Matthew 20 (1), Matthew 25 (1)

Forms

• διηκόνουν 5
• διηκόνει 4
• διακονῶν 4
• διακονῇ 3
• διακονηθῆναι 2
• διακονῆσαι 2
• διακονεῖν 2
• διακονουμένῃ 2
• διακονήσαντες 2
• διακονοῦντες 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with diakoneō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πολύς polus “much” 7
• πυρετός puretos “fever” 3
• λύτρον lutron “ransom” 2
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 4
• ὑπό hupo “by/under” 4
• περιζώννυμι perizōnnumi “to gird” 2
• ἀκολουθέω akoloutheō “to follow” 3
• ἐκεῖ ekei “there” 3
• Μάρθα Martha “Martha” 2
• ἀνάκειμαι anakeimai “to recline” 2
• ἀντί anti “for” 2
• ἐφίστημι ephistēmi “to approach” 2

Key verses

The verses using diakoneō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 20:28 — Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Luke 8:3 — And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
• Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to…
• John 12:26 — If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
• Acts 19:22 — So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
• Romans 15:25 — But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
• 2 Corinthians 3:3 — Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in…
• 2 Timothy 1:18 — The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
• Hebrews 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do…
• 1 Peter 1:12 — Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the…
• 1 Peter 4:10 — As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
• 1 Peter 4:11 — If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.