Definition

an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess)

Etymology

probably from an obsolete (to run on errands; compare G1377 (διώκω));

Where the KJV renders it

• deacon
• minister
• servant

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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