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Greek verb · G3000

λατρεύω

latreuolat-ryoo'-o

to work for hire.; to serve

21 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: latreúō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3000is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 14
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3000

to minister (to God), i.e. render religious homage

The King James renders it: serve, do the service, worship(-per).

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

latreuo is rendered "to work for hire.; to serve". It stands 21 times in the Greek text, across eight books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to work for hire.".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

Matthew 4:10λατρεύσεις

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's twenty-one uses are in Hebrews.

The other 19 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to work for hire., and to serve.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to work for hire.Tagged as
  • I serve4
  • serving4
  • is worshiping1
  • minster1
  • they served1
  • to worship1
  • we may serve1
  • will serve1

and 1 more, 15 uses in all

WhereMatthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve…
to servein cl., also of divine service, to serve, worship, and so always in NT: with dative of person(s), τ. θεῷ, Mat.4:10, Luk.4:8" (LXX),...Tagged as
  • to serve2
  • serve1
  • they will serve1
  • will you serve.’1
  • you will serve.’1
WhereExodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God…

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.

λατρείαlatreiaministryUses5

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • λατρεύω4
  • λατρεύειν3
  • λατρεύοντες2
  • λατρεύουσιν2
  • ἐλάτρευσαν1
  • λατρεῦον1
  • λατρεύοντα1
  • λατρεύοντας1
  • λατρεύουσα1
  • λατρεύσεις1
  • λατρεύσεις.¶1
  • λατρεύσουσιν1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular4V-PAI-1S
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)3V-PAN
  • verb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singular2V-FAI-2S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-FAI-3P
  • verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-PAI-3P
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
  • verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PAP-APM
  • verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PAP-ASM
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PAP-NSF
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1V-PAP-NSN
  • verb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-PAS-1P

Matthew

one use
  • “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

    Matthew 4:10

    • λατρεύσειςlatreuseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: will you serve.’

Luke

three uses
  • deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

    Luke 1:74

    • λατρεύεινlatreueinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve
  • and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

    Luke 2:37

    • λατρεύουσαlatreuousaverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: serving
  • But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

    Luke 4:8

    • λατρεύσεις.¶latreuseisverb · future active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you will serve.’

Acts

five uses
  • ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

    Acts 7:7

    • λατρεύσουσίνlatreusousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will serve
  • But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

    Acts 7:42

    • λατρεύεινlatreueinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to worship
  • I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

    Acts 24:14

    • λατρεύωlatreuoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I serve
  • the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to realize as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

    Acts 26:7

    • λατρεῦονlatreuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: serving
  • For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

    Acts 27:23

    • λατρεύωlatreuoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I serve

Romans

two uses
  • God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

    Romans 1:9

    • λατρεύωlatreuoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I serve
  • They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

    Romans 1:25

    • ἐλάτρευσανelatreusanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they served

Philippians

one use
  • For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

    Philippians 3:3

    • λατρεύοντεςlatreuontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: worshiping

2 Timothy

one use
  • I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

    2 Timothy 1:3

    • λατρεύωlatreuoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I serve

Hebrews

six uses
  • The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

    Hebrews 8:5

    • λατρεύουσινlatreuousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: minster
  • It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

    Hebrews 9:9

    • λατρεύονταlatreuontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: is worshiping
  • how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

    Hebrews 9:14

    • λατρεύεινlatreueinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve
  • If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

    Hebrews 10:2

    • λατρεύονταςlatreuontasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: serving
  • Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

    Hebrews 12:28

    • λατρεύωμενlatreuomenverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may serve
  • We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

    Hebrews 13:10

    • λατρεύοντεςlatreuontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: serving

Revelation

two uses
  • For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

    Revelation 7:15

    • λατρεύουσινlatreuousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: serve
  • No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

    Revelation 22:3

    • λατρεύσουσινlatreusousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will serve

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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