Numbers 4:12
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
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Ministry
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Hebrews 9:21
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
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διακονία
diakonía · dee-ak-on-ee'-ah
16 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(ad-)minister(-ing, -tration, -try), office, relief, service(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:17Strong's last: 2 Timothy 4:11
Open full G1248 profile →λειτουργία
leitourgía · li-toorg-ee'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ministration(-try), service.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 8:6Strong's last: Hebrews 9:21
Open full G3009 profile →יָד
yâd · yawd
2 times translated as this KJV form1,573 total Strong's occurrences
a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]
Strong's KJV usage: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 7:6Strong's last: Hosea 12:10
Open full H3027 profile →עֲבֹדָה
ʻăbôdâh · ab-o-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
work of any kind
Strong's KJV usage: act, bondage, bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, × wrought.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 4:47Strong's last: Numbers 4:47
Open full H5656 profile →שָׁרֵת
shârêth · shaw-rayth'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
service (in the Temple)
Strong's KJV usage: minister(-ry).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 4:12Strong's last: Numbers 4:12
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H8335
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
H5656
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
H3027
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
H3027
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
G1248
For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
G1248
That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
G1248
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
G1248
And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.
G1248
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
G1248
And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
G1248
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
G1248
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
G1248
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
G1248
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
G1248
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
G1248
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
G1248
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
G1248
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
G1248
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
G1248
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
G3009
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
G3009
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
English meaning and historical usage.
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ministry
MIN'ISTRY, noun [Latin ministerium.] The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind.
1. Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality.
He directs the affairs of this world by the ordinary ministry of second causes.
2. Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests, apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1:17. Romans 12:7. 2 Timothy 4:5. Numbers 4:12.
3. Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical.
The war with France was during the ministry of Pitt.
4. Persons who compose the executive government or the council of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.
5. Business; employment.
He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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