διάκονος diakonos

Greek word for “servant” · Strong’s G1249 · used 29 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

διάκονος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ; (derivation unknown);

How it is translated

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

• servant 14
• servants 8
• deacons 3
• minister 2
• ministers 1
• minister? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Colossians 1 (3), John 2 (2), 2 Corinthians 11 (2), 1 Timothy 3 (2), Matthew 20 (1), Matthew 22 (1), Matthew 23 (1), Mark 9 (1), Mark 10 (1), John 12 (1)

Forms

• διάκονος 13
• διάκονοι 7
• διακόνοις 3
• διάκονός 2
• διάκονον 2
• διακόνους 1
• Διακόνους 1

Words used with it

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

• Τυχικός Tuchikos “Tychicus” 2
• ἀγαπητός agapētos “beloved” 3
• κατά kata “according to” 5
• πιστός pistos “faithful” 3
• μέγας megas “great” 4
• σύνδουλος sundoulos “fellow slave” 2
• συνίστημι sunistēmi, sunistaō “to commend” 2
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 3
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 3
• γνωρίζω gnōrizō “to make known” 2
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 4
• οἶνος oinos “wine” 2

Key verses

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

• Matthew 22:13 — Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• John 2:5 — His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
• 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.
• Romans 15:8 — Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
• 1 Corinthians 3:5 — Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• 2 Corinthians 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2 Corinthians 6:4 — But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• 2 Corinthians 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• Ephesians 3:7 — Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
• Philippians 1:1 — Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
• Colossians 1:23 — If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every…
• 1 Timothy 4:6 — If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good…

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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.