Greek noun (masculine) · G3011
λειτουργός
leitourgosli-toorg-os'
in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally; a public servant, a minister, servant
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: leitourgós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3011is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3011
a public servant, i.e. a functionary in the Temple or Gospel, or (genitive case) a worshipper (of God) or benefactor (of man)
The King James renders it: minister(-ed).
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
leitourgos is rendered "in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally; a public servant, a minister, servant". 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 "in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 13:6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
Romans 13:6λειτουργοὶ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Romans.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally, and a public servant, a minister, servant.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereRomans 13:6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants… |
| a public servant, a minister, servantτ. ἁγίων λ. | Tagged as
| WhereNehemiah 10:39For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| λειτουργία | leitourgia | ministry | Uses6 |
| λειτουργέω | leitourgeo | to minister | Uses3 |
| λειτουργικός | leitourgikos | ministering | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- λειτουργὸν2
- λειτουργοὶ1
- λειτουργὸς1
- λειτουργοὺς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Romans
two uses
This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.
- λειτουργοὶleitourgoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: servants
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- λειτουργὸνleitourgonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a minister
Philippians
one use
But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
- λειτουργὸνleitourgonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: minister
Hebrews
two uses
Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”
- λειτουργοὺςleitourgousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: ministers
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
- λειτουργὸςleitourgosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a minister
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.