Strong's G1249

διάκονος(diákonos)

Language:: Greek (New Testament)

Definition

an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess)

Derivation

probably from an obsolete (to run on errands; compare G1377 (διώκω));

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, διάκονος is translated as: deacon, minister, servant.

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.