Strong's #3000: latreuo (pronounced lat-ryoo'-o)
from latris (a hired menial); to minister (to God), i.e. render religious homage:--serve, do the service, worship(-per).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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latreuō
1) to serve for hire
2) to serve, minister to, either to the gods or men and used alike of slaves and freemen
2a) in the NT, to render religious service or homage, to worship
2b) to perform sacred services, to offer gifts, to worship God in the observance of the rites instituted for his worship
2b1) of priests, to officiate, to discharge the sacred office
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from latris (a hired menial)
Citing in TDNT: 4:58, 503
Usage:
This word is used 21 times:
Matthew 4:10: "and him only shalt thou serve."
Luke 1:74: "the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,"
Luke 2:37: "not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers"
Luke 4:8: "and him only shalt thou serve."
Acts 7:7: "that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place."
Acts 7:42: "turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;"
Acts 24:14: "they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things"
Acts 26:7: "promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night,"
Acts 27:23: "I am, and whom I serve,"
Romans 1:9: "my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in"
Romans 1:25: "and worshiped and served the creature more than the"
Philippians 3:3: "are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice"
2 Timothy 1:3: "I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with"
Hebrews 8:5: "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses"
Hebrews 9:9: "sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;"
Hebrews 9:14: "from dead works to serve the living God?"
Hebrews 10:2: "have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had"
Hebrews 12:28: "let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with"
Hebrews 13:10: "they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle."
Revelation 7:15: "the throne of God, and serve him day and"
Revelation 22:3: "in it; and his servants shall serve him:"
