Definition

attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate)

Etymology

from G1249 (διάκονος);

Where the KJV renders it

• (ad-)minister(-ing
• -tration
• -try)
• office
• relief
• service(-ing)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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