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Strong's #1398: douleuo (pronounced dool-yoo'-o)

from 1401; to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary):--be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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douleuō

1) to be a slave, serve, do service

1a) of a nation in subjection to other nations

2) metaphorically to obey, submit to

2a) in a good sense, to yield obedience

2b) in a bad sense, of those who become slaves to some base power, to yield to, give one' s self up to

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1401

Citing in TDNT: 2:261, 182




Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

Matthew 6:24: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate"
Matthew 6:24: "the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Luke 15:29: "Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time"
Luke 16:13: "No servant can serve two masters: for either"
Luke 16:13: "the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
John 8:33: "Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest"
Acts 7:7: "nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God:"
Acts 20:19: " Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many"
Romans 6:6: "might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
Romans 7:6: "wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,"
Romans 7:25: "mind I myself serve the law of God; but"
Romans 9:12: "unto her, The elder shall serve the younger."
Romans 12:11: "in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;"
Romans 14:18: "For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and"
Romans 16:18: "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Galatians 4:8: "ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods."
Galatians 4:9: "ye desire again to be in bondage?"
Galatians 4:25: "Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children."
Galatians 5:13: "but by love serve one another."
Ephesians 6:7: "With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not"
Philippians 2:22: "as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the"
Colossians 3:24: "reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ."
1 Thessalonians 1:9: "God from idols to serve the living and true God;"
1 Timothy 6:2: "brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and"
Titus 3:3: "foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,"









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