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διάκονος

Transliteration diakonos		Pronunciation dē-ä'-ko-nos (Key)
Part of Speech masculine/feminine noun		Root Word (Etymology) Probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands, cf διώκω (G1377))
TDNT Reference 2:88,152	Vines View Entry

1) one who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant, minister

a) the servant of a king

b) a deacon, one who, by virtue of the office assigned to him by the church, cares for the poor and has charge of and distributes the money collected for their use

c) a waiter, one who serves food and drink

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Strong's Number G1249 matches the Greek διάκονος (diakonos), which occurs 5 times in 4 verses in 2Cr of the Greek concordance of the KJV
Page 1 / 1 (2Cr 3:6 - 2Cr 11:23)
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2Cr 3:6	Who also hath made us able ministers¹²⁴⁹ of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth , but the spirit giveth life .
2Cr 6:4	But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers¹²⁴⁹ of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2Cr 11:15	Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers¹²⁴⁹ also be transformed as the ministers¹²⁴⁹ of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2Cr 11:23	Are they ministers¹²⁴⁹ of Christ? (I speak as a fool ) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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