latreuō · worship, serve

What it means

latreuō (λατρεύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “worship, serve”.

Serve, worship: serve God in worship.

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 honor and devote oneself to God, or something else.

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

How it is translated

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

• worship ×8
• serve ×5
• I serve ×3
• serving God ×2
• served ×1
• worshiper ×1
• worshipers ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×3
• Acts×5
• Romans×2
• Philippians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×6
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 4:10

  Then Jesus says to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall bow down before the Lord your God, and him alone you shall serve.’”

• Luke 1:74

  that, without fear, rescued from the hand of enemies, we might serve him

• Luke 2:37

  and she was a widow until she was eighty-four years old. She did not leave the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Luke 4:8

  And answering, Jesus said to him, “It is written: Before the Lord your God you will bow down, and him alone you will serve.”

• Acts 7:7

  ‘And the nation to which they will be enslaved I will judge,’ God said, ‘and after these things they will come out and worship me in this place.’

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

• Acts 24:14

  But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a party, in this way I serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the Prophets,

• Acts 26:7

  to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, earnestly serving God night and day; concerning this hope, King, I am accused by Jews.

• Acts 27:23

  For this night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,

• Romans 1:9

  For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you,

• Romans 1:25

  for they exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

• Philippians 3:3

  For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and boast in the Messiah Jesus and do not put confidence in the flesh,

• 2 Timothy 1:3

  I give thanks to God, whom I worship, as my ancestors did, with a clean conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance of you in my supplications night and day,

• Hebrews 8:5

  they worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tent: See, he says, that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

• Hebrews 9:9

  This is a symbol for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect with respect to conscience,

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• Hebrews 12:28

  Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude, through which let us worship God in a pleasing way, with reverence and awe;

• Hebrews 13:10

  We have an altar from which those who worship in the tent have no right to eat.

• Revelation 7:15

  For this reason they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his sanctuary; and the one who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.

• Revelation 22:3

  And there will no longer be any accursed thing. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his slaves will serve him,