Definition

to minister (to God), i.e. render religious homage

Etymology

from (a hired menial);

Where the KJV renders it

• serve
• do the service
• worship(-per)

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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