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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Noun Strong's Number: g4234 Greek: praxis

Office:

"a doing, deed" (akin to prasso, "to do or practice"), also denotes "an acting" or "function," translated "office" in Rom 12:4.
See DEED.

A-2 Noun Strong's Number: g2405 Greek: hierateia

Office:

or hieratia, denotes "a priest's office," Luk 1:9; Hbr 7:5, RV, "priest's office" (AV "office of the priesthood").

B-1 Verb Strong's Number: g2407 Greek: hierateuo

Office:

"to officiate as a priest" (akin to A, No. 2), is translated "he executed the priest's office" in Luk 1:8. The word is frequent in inscriptions.

Notes:

(1) In Rom 11:13, AV, diakonia, "a ministry," is translated "office" (RV, "ministry").

(2) In Act 1:20, RV, episkope, "an overseership," is translated "office" (marg., "overseership;" AV, "bishopric").

(3) In 1Ti 3:1, the word "office," in the phrase "the office of a bishop," has nothing to represent it in the original; the RV marg. gives "overseer" for "bishop," and the phrase lit. is "overseership;" so in 1Ti 3:10, 13, where the AV has "use (and 'used') the office of a deacon," the RV rightly omits "office," and translates the verb diakoneo, "to serve," "let them serve as deacons" and "(they that) have served (well) as deacons."

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