G2999 – latreia – λατρεία – (divine) service
- Strong’s ID:
- G2999
- Greek Word:
- λατρεία
- Transliteration:
- latreia
- Pronunciation:
- lat-ri’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 5
- Search:
- Find “latreia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3000; ministration or God, i.e. worship:—(divine) service.
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) service rendered for hire
1a) any service or ministration: the service of God
2) the service and worship of God according to the requirements of the Levitical law
3) to perform sacred services
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.