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1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

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Phoebe
A deaconess of the church at Cenchreae whom Paul commended, and the likely carrier of the letter to the Romans (Rom 16:1-2).

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Cenchreae
The eastern harbor of Corinth, home of the deaconess Phoebe and a small church (Rom 16:1).

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G1249 διάκονος · diákonos (Greek)
an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties). The Greek word stands 29 times in the original text.

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Deaconess
A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.

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John Chrysostom
John was born at Antioch about 347. His father Secundus, an army officer, died while he was an infant; his mother Anthusa was widowed at twenty and refused to remarry so she…

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G1249διάκονος diákonos — an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties)

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