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διᾱκον-έω

diakoneo

minister, do service

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Where it lives

Philemon 1 · 30.49/10k
1 Peter 3 · 17.4/10k
1 Timothy 2 · 12.63/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
On The Trierarchic Crown 1 · 7.43/10k
2 Corinthians 3 · 6.69/10k
Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Mark 5 · 4.54/10k
On the Murder of Eratosthenes 1 · 4.16/10k
Luke 8 · 4.15/10k
Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k
Matthew 6 · 3.35/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. διᾱκον-έω · diakon-eō — LSJ

minister, do service, serve, minister to oneʼs own needs, serve oneself, acting as servants, serving themselves, to be served

minister, do service, abs., E. Ion 396, Ar. Av. 1323, POxy. 275.10 (i A.D.): c. dat. pers., serve D. 19.69, etc.; δ. διακονικὰ ἔργα Arist. Pol. 1333a8; δ. ὑποθήκαις τινός Antipho 1.17; δ. παρὰ τῷ δεσπότῃ Posidipp. 2; δ. πρὸς ὠνήν τε καὶ πρᾶσιν Pl. R. 371d:—Med., minister to oneʼs own needs, serve oneself, S. Ph. 287; αὑτῷ διακονεῖται Ar. Ach. 1017; διακονοῦντες καὶ διακονούμενοι ἑαυτοῖς acting as servants and serving themselves, Pl. Lg. 763a: also simply like Act., οἶνον ἡμῖν χρυσίῳ διακονούμενο

2 to be a deacon

to be a deacon, 1 Ep.Ti. 3.10, 13.

II render a service, to be supplied

c. acc. rei, render a service, τινὶ ὅ τι ἂν δεηθῇ Hdt. 4.154, cf. Pl. Plt. 290a; δ. γάμους Posidipp. 26.19:—Pass., to be supplied, τῇ πόλει ἐδιακονήθησαν [αἱ πράξεις] D. 50.2; τῶν καλῶς δεδιακονημένων Id. 51.7: c. dat. instr., ἐκπώμασι διακονείσθωσαν OGI 383.159 (i B.C.).

2. διακωνέω · diakōneō — LSJ

daub with pitch

daub with pitch, Hsch.

In the wild

διακονεῖται · diakoneitai Aristophanes, Acharnians 1015 (DIORISIS sentence 766)
διακονεῖς · diakoneis Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 974)
διακονεῖν · diakonein Aristotle, Politics 1333a (DIORISIS sentence 2825)
ἐδιακονήθησαν · ediakonēthēsan Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles 2 (DIORISIS sentence 7)
διακονοῦντες · diakonountes Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Proof.69 (DIORISIS sentence 221)
δεδιακονημένων · dediakonēmenōn Demosthenes, On The Trierarchic Crown 7 (DIORISIS sentence 24)

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