"to minister" (akin to diakonos, No. 2, above), "to render any kind of service," is translated "to serve," e.g., in Luk 10:40, Luk 12:37, Luk 17:8, Luk 1:22-27 (twice); see MINISTER, B, No. 1.
<2,,1398, douleuo>
"to serve as a doulos" (No. 1, above), is used (a) of serving God (and the impossibility of serving mammon also), Mat 6:24 and Luk 16:13, Rom 7:6; in the gospel, Phi 2:22; (b) Christ, Act 20:19, Rom 12:11, Rom 14:18, Rom 16:18, Eph 6:7, Col 3:24; (c) the law of God, Rom 7:25; (d) one another, Gal 5:13, RV, "be servants to" (AV, "serve"); (e) a father, Luk 15:29 (with a suggestion of acting as a slave); (f) earthly masters, Mat 6:24, Luk 16:13, 1Ti 6:2, RV, "serve;" (g) the younger by the elder, Rom 9:12; (h) of being in bondage to a nation, Act 7:7, Gal 4:25, to the Romans, actually, though also spiritually to Judaizers; (i) to idols, Gal 4:8, RV, "were in bondage" (AV, "did service"); (j) to "the weak and beggarly rudiments," Gal 4:9 (RV), "to be in bondage" (aorist tense in the best texts, suggesting "to enter into bondage"), i.e., to the religion of the Gentiles ("rudiments" being used in Gal 4:3 of the religion of the Jews); (k) sin, Rom 6:6, RV, "be in bondage" (AV, "serve"); (1) "divers lusts and pleasures," Tit 3:3; (m) negatively, to any man - a proud and thoughtless denial by the Jews, Joh 8:33.
<3,,3000, latreuo>
primarily "to work for hire" (akin to latris, "a hired servant"), signifies (1) to worship, (2) to "serve;" in the latter sense it is used of service (a) to God, Mat 4:10, Luk 1:74 ("without fear"); Luk 4:8, Act 7:7, Act 24:14, RV, "serve" (AV, "worship"); Act 26:7, Act 27:23, Rom 1:9 ("with my spirit"); 2Ti 1:3, Heb 9:14, Heb 12:28, AV, "we may serve," RV, "we may offer service;" Rev 7:15; (b) to God and Christ ("the Lamb"), Rev 22:3; (c) in the tabernacle, Heb 8:5, RV; Heb 13:10; (d) to "the host of heaven," Act 7:42, RV, "to serve" (AV, "to worship"); (e) to "the creature," instead of the Creator, Rom 1:25, of idolatry: see WORSHIP.
Note: In Luk 2:37 the RV has "worshiping," for AV, "served;" in Heb 9:9, "the worshiper," for AV, "that did the service."
<4,,5256, hupereteo>
for which see MINISTER. B, No. 3, is translated "to serve" in Act 13:36; there is a contrast intimated between the service of David, lasting for only a generation, and the eternal character of Christ's ministry as the One who not having seen corruption was raised from the dead.
