Meaning
Service, Serving <1,,1248, diakonia>
is rendered "service" in Rom 15:31, AV; "serving" in Luk 10:40. See MINISTRY, A, No. 1.
<2,,3009, leitourgia>
is rendered "service" in 2Co 9:12, Phi 2:17, Phi 2:30. See MINISTRY, A, No. 2.
<3,,2999, latreia>
akin to latreuo (see No. 3, above), primarily "hired service," is used (a) of the "service" of God in connection with the tabernacle, Rom 9:4, Heb 9:1, "Divine service;" Heb 9:6, plural, RV, "services" (AV, "service," and, in italics, "of God"); (b) of the intelligent "service" of believers in presenting their bodies to God, a living sacrifice, Rom 12:1, RV marg., "worship;" (c) of imagined "service" to God by persecutors of Christ's followers, Joh 16:2.
Note: For "soldier on service," 2Ti 2:3, RV, see SOLDIER, B.
