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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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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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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G1248
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
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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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