Word Summary
leitourgikos: of or for service
Original Word: λειτουργικόςTransliteration: leitourgikos
Phonetic Spelling: (li-toorg-ik-os')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: of or for service
Meaning: of or for service
Strong's Concordance
ministering.
From the same as leitourgeo; functional publicly ("liturgic"); i.e. Beneficient -- ministering.
see GREEK leitourgeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3010: λειτουργικόςλειτουργικός,
λειτουργικη,
λειτουργικον (
λειτουργία), "relating to the performance of service, employed in ministering:
σκεύη,
Numbers 4:(12),26, etc.;
στολαί,
Exodus 31:10, etc.;
πνεύματα, of angels executing God's behests,
Hebrews 1:14; also
αἱ λειτουργικαι τοῦ Θεοῦ δυνάμεσι,
Ignatius ad Philad. 9 [ET] (longer recension);
τό πᾶν πλῆθος τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ,
πῶς τῷ θελήματι αὐτοῦ λειτουργουσι παρεστῶτες,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 34, 5 [ET], cf. Daniel; (
Theod.)
. (Not found in secular authors)