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1.
(
!
, 1247), “to minister” (akin to
, No. 2, above), “to
render any kind of service,” is translated “to serve,” e.g., in Luke 10:40; 12:37; 17:8;
22:26, 27 (twice); see
MINISTER
, B, No. 1.
2.
$ $
(
"
, 1398), “to serve as a
$
” (No. 1, above), is used (a) of
serving God (and the impossibility of serving mammon also), Matt. 6:24 and Luke 16:13;
Rom. 7:6; in the gospel, Phil. 2:22; (b) Christ, Acts 20:19; Rom. 12:11; 14:18; 16:18;
Eph. 6:7; Col. 3:24; (c) the law of God, Rom. 7:25; (d) one another, Gal. 5:13,
RV
, “be
servants to” (
KJV
, “serve”); (e) a father, Luke 15:29 (with a suggestion of acting as a
slave); (f) earthly masters, Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:13; 1 Tim. 6:2,
RV
, “serve”; (g) the
younger by the elder, Rom. 9:12; (h) of being in bondage to a nation, Acts 7:7; Gal. 4:25,
to the Romans, actually, though also spiritually to Judaizers; (i) to idols, Gal. 4:8,
RV
,
“were in bondage” (
KJV
, “did service”); (j) to “the weak and beggarly rudiments,” v. 9
(
RV
), “to be in bondage” (aorist tense in the best texts, suggesting “to enter into
bondage”), i.e., to the religion of the Gentiles (“rudiments” being used in v. 3 of the
religion of the Jews); (k) sin, Rom. 6:6,
RV
, “be in bondage” (
KJV
, “serve”); (l) “divers
lusts and pleasures,” Titus 3:3; (m) negatively, to any man—a proud and thoughtless
denial by the Jews, John 8:33.¶
3.
$
(
$ "
, 3000), primarily “to work for hire” (akin to
, “a hired
servant”), signifies (1) to worship, (2) to “serve”; in the latter sense it is used of service
(a) to God, Matt. 4:10; Luke 1:74 (“without fear”); 4:8; Acts 7:7; 24:14,
RV
, “serve” (
KJV
,
“worship”); 26:7; 27:23; Rom. 1:9 (“with my spirit”); 2 Tim. 1:3; Heb. 9:14; 12:28,
KJV
,
“we may serve,”
RV
, “we may offer service”; Rev. 7:15; (b) to God and Christ (“the
Lamb”), Rev. 22:3; (c) in the tabernacle, Heb. 8:5,
RV
; 13:10; (d) to “the host of heaven,”
Acts 7:42,
RV
, “to serve” (
KJV
, “to worship”); (e) to “the creature,” instead of the Creator,
Rom. 1:25, of idolatry: see
WORSHIP
.
Note:
In Luke 2:37 the
RV
has “worshiping,” for
KJV
, “served”; in Heb. 9:9, “the
worshiper,” for
KJV
, “that did the service.”
4.
$
(
% $ !
, 5256), for which see
MINISTER
, B, No. 3, is translated “to
serve” in Acts 13:36; there is a contrast intimated between the service of David, lasting
for only a generation, and the eternal character of Christ’s ministry as the One who not
having seen corruption was raised from the dead.
SERVICE, SERVING
1.
(
&
, 1248) is rendered “service” in Rom. 15:31,
KJV
; “serving” in
Luke 10:40. See
MINISTRY
, A, No. 1.
2.
$
(
$ &
, 3009) is rendered “service” in 2 Cor. 9:12; Phil. 2:17, 30.
See
MINISTRY
, A, No. 2.
3.
(
$ &
, 2999), akin to
$
(see No. 3, above), primarily “hired
service,” is used (a) of the “service”
7 5
in connection with the tabernacle, Rom. 9:4;
Heb. 9:1, “divine service”; v. 6, plural,
RV
, “services” (
KJV
, “service”, and, in italics, “of
God”); (b) of the intelligent “service” of believers in presenting their bodies to God, a
living sacrifice, Rom. 12:1,
RV
marg., “worship”; (c) of imagined “service” to God by
persecutors of Christ’s followers, John 16:2.¶
Note:
For “soldier on service,” 2 Tim. 2:3,
RV
, see
SOLDIER
, B.