diakoneō · serve

What it means

diakoneō (διακονέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “serve”.

Attend to; also serve at table.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take care of others, help with their needs.
2. To handle a task, like taking a gift.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• serve ×11
• serving ×11
• serves ×6
• be served ×2
• being administered ×2
• delivered ×1
• have served ×1
• having served ×1
• he served ×1
• those who served ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×5
• Luke×8
• John×3
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×3
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×3

• Matthew 4:11

  Then the devil leaves him, and look, angels came and were serving him.

• Matthew 8:15

  And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and began to serve him.

• Matthew 20:28

  just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• Matthew 25:44

  Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve you?’

• Matthew 27:55

  And there were there many women watching from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him;

• Mark 1:13

  And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the wild animals, and the angels were serving him.

• Mark 1:31

  And he came and raised her up, taking her by the hand; and the fever left her, and she began serving them.

• Mark 10:45

  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• Mark 15:41

  who, when he was in Galilee, used to follow him and serve him, and many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

• Luke 4:39

  And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she got up and began serving them.

• Luke 8:3

  and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who were serving them out of their own means.

• Luke 10:40

  But Martha was distracted with much serving; and coming up, she said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”

• Luke 12:37

  Happy are those slaves whom the master will find awake when he comes. Truly I tell you that he will gird himself and have them recline at table and will come and serve them.

• Luke 17:8

  Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare what I may have for supper, and tie up your robe and serve me while I eat and drink, and after that you will eat and drink’?

• Luke 22:26

  But you are not so; rather let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

• Luke 22:27

  For who is greater, the one who reclines at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

• John 12:2

  So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.

• John 12:26

  If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

• Acts 6:2

  So the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

• Acts 19:22

  And having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed for a time in Asia.

• Romans 15:25

  But now I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints.

• 2 Corinthians 3:3

  since you are shown to be a letter of the Messiah delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.

• 2 Corinthians 8:19

  and not only that, but he was also appointed by the assemblies as our travel companion in this grace that is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our eagerness;

• 2 Corinthians 8:20

  taking care about this, that no one should blame us in this generous gift that is being administered by us;

• 1 Timothy 3:10

  And let these also be tested first; then let them serve, if they are blameless.

• 1 Timothy 3:13

  For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great confidence in the faith that is in the Messiah Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 1:18

  May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day. And how much he served in Ephesus you know very well.

• Philemon 1:13

  I wanted to keep him with me, so that on behalf of you he might serve me in the chains of the good news;

• Hebrews 6:10

  For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love that you showed toward his name in having served the saints and still serving them.

• 1 Peter 1:12

  To them it was revealed that not for themselves but for you they were serving these things which have now been announced to you through those who proclaimed the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look intently.

• 1 Peter 4:10

  Each one, as he has received a gift, serving one another with it as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

• 1 Peter 4:11

  If anyone speaks, let him speak as speaking the words of God; if anyone serves, let him serve as from the strength that God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus the Messiah, to whom belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

And 5 more times.