λειτουργός
minister
‘minister’ is one of 4 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.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G3011 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Romans. 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.
Romans
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.
λειτουργος — transliterated leitourgós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “minister.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Romans (40% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Romans 13:6. Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3011 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 2 verses 40%
- Hebrews 2 verses 40%
- Philippians 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 60%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 40%
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: Minister 2×, Ministers 2×
- American Standard Version: Minister 3×, Ministers 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Minister 2×, Servants 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Servant 2×, Servants 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3011 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3011 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3011 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G3011 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 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.
- a public minister, a servant of the state
- so of military labourers
- of the temple
- of the servants of a king
Word origin
Derived from λαος (laós) (G2992) — people.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3011 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λειτουργὸν leitourgòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 15:16 | 2 |
| λειτουργοὶ leitourgoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 13:6 | 1 |
| λειτουργοὺς leitourgoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 1:7 | 1 |
| λειτουργὸς leitourgòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 8:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3011, 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.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λειτουργος appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 7 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 13:18 λειτουργός
- 1 Kings 10:5 λειτουργός
- 2 Kings 4:43 λειτουργός
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 λειτουργός
- Ezra 7:24 λειτουργός
- Psalms 102:21 λειτουργός
- Isaiah 61:6 λειτουργός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3011) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 13:18 λειτουργός She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
- 1 Kings 10:5 λειτουργός and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
- 2 Kings 4:43 λειτουργός His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
- 2 Kings 6:15 λειτουργός When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 λειτουργός and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
- Ezra 7:24 λειτουργός Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.
- Ezra 20:40 λειτουργός
- Psalms 102:21 λειτουργός That men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem;
- Psalms 103:4 λειτουργός Who redeems your life from destruction; Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
- Isaiah 61:6 λειτουργός But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3011) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
