Words the Bible translates as service
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tsavaצָבָאservice: an assigned term of duty, from being liable for war to a stretch of imposed hardship with a set end
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- an army: a body of fighting men called up, counted, and drawn up under a commander
- the host of heaven: the ordered array above, whether the stars or the heavenly beings around God
- the plural in the divine title "the LORD of hosts": God named as the one every marshaled force answers to
- avodahעֲבֹדָהcultic service: the formal ministry at the sanctuary, and the prescribed rites of sacred occasions
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- labor: work done for another, whether freely given or forcibly imposed
- leitourgiaλειτουργίαappointed service offered to God, above all the formal work of a priest in worship, and by extension gifts or lives presented to him like a sacrifice
- diakoniaδιακονίαa commission carried out on behalf of another: the assigned work or ministry someone is charged to do, especially in the service of God
- latreiaλατρείαthe religious service owed to God: whether the whole worship he appointed for his people or a single act of devotion rendered to him
- therapeiaθεραπείαservicenot studied yet
- avidahעֲבִידָהservicenot studied yet
- avuddahעֲבֻדָּהservicenot studied yet
- polḥanפׇּלְחָןservicenot studied yet
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