Greek verb · G5256
ὑπηρετέω
hypereteohoop-ay-ret-eh'-o
to serve
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hypēretéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5256is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5256
to be a subordinate, i.e. (by implication) subserve
The King James renders it: minister (unto), serve.
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
hypereteo is rendered "to serve". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
Acts 13:36ὑπηρετήσας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having served1
- ministered to1
- to minister1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπηρέτης | hyperetes | servant | Uses20 |
All 3, 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
- ὑπηρετεῖν1
- ὑπηρέτησαν1
- ὑπηρετήσας1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
Acts
three uses
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- ὑπηρετήσαςhuperetesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having served
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
- ὑπηρέτησανhuperetesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: ministered to
He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.
- ὑπηρετεῖνhupereteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to 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.