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Lexicon :: Strong's G1249 - diakonos

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διάκονος
Transliteration
diakonos (Key)
Pronunciation
dee-ak'-on-os
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands, cf διώκω (G1377))
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Strong’s Definitions

διάκονος diákonos, dee-ak'-on-os; probably from an obsolete διάκω diákō (to run on errands; compare G1377); 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):—deacon, minister, servant.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's G1249 in the following manner: minister (20x), servant (8x), deacon (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's G1249 in the following manner: minister (20x), servant (8x), deacon (3x).

  1. one who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant, minister

    1. the servant of a king

    2. a deacon, one who, by virtue of the office assigned to him by the church, cares for the poor and has charge of and distributes the money collected for their use

    3. a waiter, one who serves food and drink

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διάκονος diákonos, dee-ak'-on-os; probably from an obsolete διάκω diákō (to run on errands; compare G1377); 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):—deacon, minister, servant.
STRONGS G1249:
διάκονος, διακονου, ὁ, ἡ, (of uncertain origin, but by no means, as was formerly thought, compounded of διά and κόνις, so as to mean, properly, 'raising dust by hastening'; cf. ἐγκονεῖν; for α in the preposition διά is short, in διάκονος, long. Buttmann Lexil. i., p. 218ff [English translation, p. 231f] thinks it is derived from the obsolete διάκω equivalent to διήκω [allied with διώκω; cf. Vanicek, p. 363]); one who executes the commands of another, especially of a master; a servant, attendant, minister;
1. universally: of the servant of a king, Matthew 22:13; with the genitive of the person served, Matthew 20:26; Matthew 23:11; Mark 9:35; Mark 10:43, (in which passage it is used figuratively of those who advance others' interests even at the sacrifice of their own); τῆς ἐκκλησίας, of one who does what promotes the welfare and prosperity of the church, Colossians 1:25; διάκονοι τοῦ θεοῦ, those through whom God carries on his administration on earth, as magistrates, Romans 13:4; teachers of the Christian religion, 1 Corinthians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:2 R T Tr WH text L marginal reading; the same are called διάκονοι (τοῦ) Χριστοῦ, 2 Corinthians 11:23; Colossians 1:7; 1 Timothy 4:6; ἐν κυρίῳ, in the cause of the Lord, Colossians 4:7; [Ephesians 6:21]; ὁ διάκ. μου, my follower, John 12:26; τοῦ Σατανᾶ, whom Satan uses as a servant, 2 Corinthians 11:15; [ἁμαρτίας, Galatians 2:17]; διάκ. περιτομῆς (abstract for concrete), of Christ, who labored for the salvation of the circumcised, i. e. the Jews, Romans 15:8; with the genitive of the thing to which service is rendered, i. e. to which one is devoted: καινῆς διαθήκης, 2 Corinthians 3:6; τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, Ephesians 3:7; Colossians 1:23; δικαιοσύνης, 2 Corinthians 11:15.
2. a deacon, one who, by virtue of the office assigned him by the church, cares for the poor and has charge of and distributes the money collected for their use [cf. BB. DD., Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Schaff-Herzog under the word Deacon; Bp. Lightfoot's Commentary on Philippians, dissert. i. § i.; Julius Mϋller, Dogmatische Abhandlungen, p. 560ff]: Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:8, 12, cf. Acts 6:3ff; ἡ διάκονος, a deaconess (ministra, Pliny, epistles 10, 97), a woman to whom the care of either poor or sick women was entrusted, Romans 16:1 [cf. Dictionaries as above, under the word Deaconess; Lightfoot as above, p. 191; B. D. under the word Phœbe].
3. a waiter, one who serves food and drink: John 2:5, 9, as in Xenophon, mem. 1, 5, 2; Hier. 3, 11 (4, 2); Polybius 31, 4, 5; Lucian, de merced. cond. § 26; Athen. 7, p. 291 a.; 10, 420 e.; see διακονέω, 2 and -νία, 5; [also Wetstein on Matthew 4:11].
[Synonyms: διάκονος, δοῦλος, θεράπων, ὑπηρέτης: "διάκονος represents the servant in his activity for the work; not in his relation, either servile, as that of the δοῦλος, or more voluntary, as in the case of the θεράπων, to a person" Trench; [yet cf. e. g. Romans 13:4; 2 Corinthians 6:4, etc.]. δοῦλος opposed to ἑλεύθερος, and correlate to δεσπότης or κύριος, denotes a bondman, one who sustains a permanent servile relation to another. θεράπων is the voluntary performer of services, whether as a freeman or a slave; it is a nobler, tenderer word than δοῦλος. ὑπηρ. according to its etymology suggests subordination. Cf. Trench § 9; B. D. under the word Minister; Meyer on Ephesians 3:7; Schmidt ch. 164.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:11; 20:26; 22:13; 23:11
Mark
9:35; 10:43
John
2:5; 2:9; 12:26
Acts
6:3
Romans
13:4; 13:4; 15:8; 16:1
1 Corinthians
3:5
2 Corinthians
3:6; 6:4; 6:4; 11:15; 11:15; 11:23
Galatians
2:17
Ephesians
3:7; 3:7; 6:21
Philippians
1:1
Colossians
1:7; 1:23; 1:25; 4:7
1 Thessalonians
3:2
1 Timothy
3:8; 3:12; 4:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1249 matches the Greek διάκονος (diakonos),
which occurs 29 times in 27 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:26 - It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:13 - Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:11 - But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:35 - He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 10:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:43 - But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:5 - His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:9 - When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:26 - If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:4 - for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:8 - Now I say that Messiah has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:1 - I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:5 - Who then is Apollos, and who is Sha'ul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:6 - who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:4 - but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:15 - It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:23 - Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:17 - But if, while we sought to be justified in Messiah, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Messiah a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:7 - whereof I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:21 - But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things;

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:1 - Sha'ul and Timothy, servants of Yeshua the Messiah; To all the holy ones in Messiah Yeshua who are at Philippi, with the overseers and shammashim:

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:7 - even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Messiah on our behalf,

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:23 - if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Sha'ul, was made a servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:25 - of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:7 - All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:8 - Shammashim, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:12 - Let shammashim be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:6 - If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Messiah Yeshua, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
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