noun · masculine

Greekλειτουργός (leitourgos)

Biblang

leitourgos

Strong’sG3011

a minister, servant

stem leitourg-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

λειτουργός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< λιός, ἔργον), [in LXX chiefly for מְשָׁרֵת, Jos 1:1 A, III Ki 10:5, Ps 102 (103):21, Si 7:30, al.;]

1. in cl., one who discharges a public office at his own expense, then, generally,

2. a public servant, a minister, servant: τ. ἁγίων λ., He 8:2 (cf. Ne 10:39, Si 7:30); Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ro 15:16; pl., τ. θεοῦ, Ro 13:6, He 1:7(LXX); λ. ὑμῶν τ. χρείας μου, Phl 2:25.†

SYN.: v.s. διάκονος, λειτουργέω.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3011 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidli-toorg-os'

a public servant, i.e. a functionary in the Temple or Gospel, or (genitive case) a worshipper (of God) or benefactor (of man)

Fromfrom a derivative of G2992 and G2041;

King Jamesminister(-ed).

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

λειτουργ-ός, ὁ,
(λήϊτος, ἔργον) one who performed a λειτουργία (which see), Refs 3rd c.AD+; λ. τῶν ἐν παισὶ λειτουργιῶν Refs
II public servant, ἡ στάσις τῶν λ. [τοῦ Σαλομῶνος] LXX; of workmen, carpenters, etc., οἰκοδόμοι καὶ λ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; at Magnesia, an official of the γερουσία, Refs; = Latin lictor, Refs 1st c.AD+ ministering to my need, NT
II.2 private servant, LXX
III in religioussense, minister, [θεοῦ]LXX+NT+1st c.BC+; θεοῖς λιτουργοί (sic) Refs 1st c.BC+; attendant at sacrifices, acolyte, Refs
IV Astrology texts, λειτουργοί, οἱ, astral gods subordinate to the δεκανοί, Refs 4th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

minister3×servants2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	leitourgos1×λειτουργὸς	leitourgois1×λειτουργοὶ
object accusative	leitourgon2×λειτουργὸν	leitourgoin1×λειτουργοὺς
direct address vocative	leitourgor	leitourgoir
of, belonging to genitive	leitourgou	leitourgoiu
to, for dative	leitourgo	leitourgoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

leitourgstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

leitourgo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

leitourgamō — λειτουργέω, I minister, serve publicly

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

leitourgos“minister”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 8:2“minister”teiu hagieiu leitourgos kai tau skēnau tau alēthinau, han …… ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not …

leitourgon“minister”objectaccusative singular2×

Romans 15:16eis tem arō min leitourgon Christou Iēsu eis teim ethneim, hierourgarōnton …to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles …

Philippians 2:25… sustratiōton mu, vu de apostolon kai leitourgon tau chreiau mu, pempara pros vin,… who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.

leitourgois“servants”subjectnominative plural1×

Romans 13:6dia houtem gar kai foroin telavō, leitourgois gar theou alō eis autem houtem …… taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

leitourgoin“servants”objectaccusative plural1×

Hebrews 1:7… toin angeloin autou pneumeim, kai toin leitourgoin autou pureu flogan;… He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”