Strong's #1247: diakoneo (pronounced dee-ak-on-eh'-o)

from 1249; to be an attendant, i.e. wait upon (menially or as a host, friend, or (figuratively) teacher); technically, to act as a Christian deacon:--(ad-)minister (unto), serve, use the office of a deacon.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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diakoneō

1) to be a servant, attendant, domestic, to serve, wait upon

1a) to minister to one, render ministering offices to

1a1) to be served, ministered unto

1b) to wait at a table and offer food and drink to the guests

1b1) of women preparing food

1c) to minister, i.e. supply food and necessities of life

1c1) to relieve one' s necessities (e.g. by collecting alms), to provide take care of, distribute, the things necessary to sustain life

1c2) to take care of the poor and the sick, who administer the office of a deacon

1c3) in Christian churches to serve as deacons

1d) to minister

1d1) to attend to anything, that may serve another' s interests

1d2) to minister a thing to one, to serve one or by supplying any thing

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1249

Citing in TDNT: 2:81, 152

Usage:

This word is used 37 times:

 

Matthew 4:11: "angels came and ministered unto him."
Matthew 8:15: "and she arose, and ministered unto them."
Matthew 20:28: "of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give"
Matthew 20:28: "not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life"
Matthew 25:44: "prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
Matthew 27:55: "followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:"
Mark 1:13: "and the angels ministered unto him."
Mark 1:31: "fever left her, and she ministered unto them."
Mark 10:45: "of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give"
Mark 10:45: "not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life"
Mark 15:41: "followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women"
Luke 4:39: "and immediately she arose and ministered unto them."
Luke 8:3: "many others, which ministered unto him of their substance."
Luke 10:40: "that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid"
Luke 12:37: "to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them."
Luke 17:8: "I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and"
Luke 22:26: "and he that is chief, as he that doth serve."
Luke 22:27: "is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I"
Luke 22:27: "among you as he that serveth."
John 12:2: "a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one"
John 12:26: "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where"
John 12:26: "be: if any man serve me, him will my Father"
Acts 6:2: "the word of God, and serve tables."
Acts 19:22: "into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timothy and Erastus;"
Romans 15:25: "I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints."
2 Corinthians 3:3: "be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not"
2 Corinthians 8:19: "with this grace, which is administered by us to the"
2 Corinthians 8:20: "in this abundance which is administered by us:"
1 Timothy 3:10: "first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless."
1 Timothy 3:13: "For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and"
2 Timothy 1:18: "day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest"
Philemon 1:13: "me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the"
Hebrews 6:10: "toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister."
Hebrews 6:10: "to the saints, and do minister."
1 Peter 1:12: "unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported"
1 Peter 4:10: "every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as"
1 Peter 4:11: "the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which"