διακονία
service
‘service’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G1248 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of 1 Corinthians. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, διακονια (diakonía) means “service.” Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Spanning 32 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in 2 Corinthians (34% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Luke 10:40. Dig into 32-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1248 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 32
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 32 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #424
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 424 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 32 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 11 verses 34%
- Acts 8 verses 25%
- Romans 3 verses 9%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 32 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 21 verses · 66%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 28%
- Gospels 1 verse · 3%
- Johannine 1 verse · 3%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 3%
- Revelation 1 verse · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ministry 16×, Ministration 5×, Ministering 3×
- American Standard Version: Ministry 12×, Ministration 10×, Ministering 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ministry 18×, Service 6×, Serve 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ministry 19×, Service 11×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1248 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1248 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1248 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1248 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others
- of those who by the command of God proclaim and promote religion among men
- the ministration of those who render to others the offices of Christian affection esp. those who help meet need by…
- the office of the deacon in the church
- the service of those who prepare and present food
Word origin
Derived from διακονος (diákonos) (G1249) — servant.
From G1249 ; attendance (as a servant etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher or technically of the diaconate ): - (ad-) minister (-ing -tration -try) office relief service (-ing).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1248 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διακονίαν diakonían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 10:40 | 16 |
| διακονίας diakonías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 1:17 | 7 |
| διακονία diakonía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 15:31 | 6 |
| διακονίᾳ diakonía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 6:1 | 4 |
| διακονιῶν diakoniō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 12:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1248, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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