G3009
λειτουργία
ministry
λειτουργία, -ας, ἡ (λειτουργέω), [in LXX chiefly for עֲבֹדָה, Num.4:24, 1Ch.9:13, al. ;] __1. in cl. (chiefly of Athens), the discharge of a public office at one's own expense (see LS, see word), hence, __2. a service, ministry; in π. (Deiss., BS, 140 f.) and in LXX (though here also of secular service, 3Ki.1:4, al.), of religious service or ministration; and so in NT: of priestly ministrations, Luk.1:23, Heb.8:6 9:21; figuratively, θυσία καὶ λ. τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, Php.2:17; of Christian beneficence, 2Co.9:12, Php.2:30.† (AS)
The KJV translates G3009 in the following manner:
service (6x), ministry (4x), ministration (2x), of (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
λειτουργία — leitourgía
λειτουργία, λειτουργίας, ἡ (from λειτουργέω, which see);
1. properly, a public office which a citizen undertakes to administer at his own expense: Plato, legg. 12, p. 949 c.; Lysias, p. 163, 22; Isocrates, p. 391 d.; Theophrastus, Char. 20 (23), 5; 23 (29), 4, and others.
2. universally, any service: of military service, Polybius; Diodorus 1, 63. 73; of the service of workmen,
c. 21; of that done to nature in the cohabitation of man and wife, Aristotle, oec. 1, 3, p. 1343b, 20.
3. in Biblical Greek a. the service or ministry of the priests relative to the prayers and sacrifices offered to God: Luk 1:23; Heb 8:6; Heb 9:21, (for עֲבודָה, Num 8:22; Num 16:9; Num 18:4; 2Ch 31:2; Diodorus 1, 21; Josephus; (Philo de caritat. § 1 under the end; others; see Sophocles Lex. under the word)); hence, the phrase in Php 2:17, explained under the word θυσία, b. at the end ((cf. Lightfoot on Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 44 [ET])).
b. a gift or benefaction, for the relief of the needy (see λειτουργέω, 2 c.): 2Co 9:12; Php 2:30.
6 occurrences
Luke (1), II Corinthians (1), Philippians (2), Hebrews (2)