Greek noun (feminine) · G2999
λατρεία
latreialat-ri'-ah
hired service, service.; (in cl. also) divine service
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: latreía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2999is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2999
ministration of God, i.e. worship
The King James renders it: (divine) service.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
latreia is rendered "hired service, service.; (in cl. also) divine service". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "hired service, service.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
John 16:2λατρείαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: hired service, service., and (in cl. also) divine service.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| hired service, service. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact… |
| (in cl. also) divine serviceworship | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λατρεύω | latreuo | to minister | Uses21 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- λατρείαν2
- λατρείας2
- λατρεία1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
John
one use
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- λατρείανlatreiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a service
Romans
two uses
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- λατρείαlatreianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: service
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- λατρείανlatreiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: service
Hebrews
two uses
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
- λατρείαςlatreiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of worship
When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.
- λατρείαςlatreiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sacred services
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.