Palabra Original: λειτουργία, ας, ἡ
Parte del Discurso: Sustantivo, femenino
Transliteración: leitourgia
Ortografía Fonética: (li-toorg-ee'-ah)
Definición: servicio, ministerio, oficio, un servicio, un ministerio.
RVR 1909 Número de Palabras: servicio (3), ministerio (2), oficio (1).
Cognado: 3009 leitourgía (sustantivo femenino derivado de 3011/ leitourgós, "servidor oficial" o su "ministerio sagrado") - propiamente, un servicio oficial (técnico) brindado por un ministro debidamente autorizado; usado con referencia a los creyentes que ministran al Señor como sacerdotes debidamente comisionados - un ministerio sagrado que sirve e impacta a aquellos que lo presencian.

Original Word: λειτουργία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: leitourgia
Phonetic Spelling: (li-toorg-ee'-ah)
Short Definition: a charitable gift, public service
Definition: a charitable gift, public service in the widest sense; service as of priest or Levite ritual.STRONGS NT 3009: λειτουργία

λειτουργία, λειτουργίας, ἡ (from λειτουργέω, which see);

1. properly, a public office which a citizen undertakes to administer at his own expense: Plato, legg. 12, p. 949 c.; Lysias, p. 163, 22; Isocrates, p. 391 d.; Theophrastus, Char. 20 (23), 5; 23 (29), 4, and others.

2. universally, any service: of military service, Polybius; Diodorus 1, 63. 73; of the service of workmen,

c. 21; of that done to nature in the cohabitation of man and wife, Aristotle, oec. 1, 3, p. 1343b, 20.

3. in Biblical Greek a. the service or ministry of the priests relative to the prayers and sacrifices offered to God: Luke 1:23; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:21, (for עֲבודָה, Numbers 8:22; Numbers 16:9; Numbers 18:4; 2 Chronicles 31:2; Diodorus 1, 21; Josephus; (Philo de caritat. § 1 under the end; others; see Sophocles Lex. under the word)); hence, the phrase in Philippians 2:17, explained under the word θυσία, b. at the end ((cf. Lightfoot on Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 44 [ET])).

b. a gift or benefaction, for the relief of the needy (see λειτουργέω, 2 c.): 2 Corinthians 9:12; Philippians 2:30.

ministry, service.

From leitourgeo; public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver) -- ministration(-try), service.

see GREEK leitourgeo

λειτουργια λειτουργία λειτουργίᾳ λειτουργίαν λειτουργιας λειτουργίας λειτουργιών leitourgia leitourgíāi leitourgias leitourgíasInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts