G1398 – douleuo – δουλεύω – to work, serve
- Strong’s ID:
- G1398
- Greek Word:
- δουλεύω
- Transliteration:
- douleuo
- Pronunciation:
- dool-yoo’-o
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- from G1401
- Equivalents:
- H5647, to serve
- Usage Count:
- 25
- Search:
- Find “douleuo” in the Bible (New Testament)
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1401; to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary):—be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice).
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to be a slave, serve, do service
1a) of a nation in subjection to other nations
2) metaphorically to obey, submit to
2a) in a good sense, to yield obedience
2b) in a bad sense, of those who become slaves to some base power, to yield to, give one’s self up to
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.