meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2999 — yabboq (“Jabbok”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2999 λατρείαν is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. latreia (lat-rei'-ah) n. 1. ministration of God, i.e. worship [from G3000] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include god and divine. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
latreia (lat-rei'-ah) n. 1. ministration of God, i.e. worship [from G3000] KJV: (divine) service Root(s): G3000
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2999. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
ministry
Usage: λατρεία, -ας, ἡ (λατρεύω, which see), [in LXX (always of divine service): Exo.12:25-26 13:5, Jos.22:27, 1Ch.28:13 (עֲבֹדָה), 1Ma.1:43 1Mac 2:19 1Mac 2:22, 3Ma.4:14 * ;] __1. hired service, service. __2. (in cl. also) divine service, worship: Jhn.16:2, Rom.9:4 12:1, Heb.9:1, 6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G2999, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2999 (λατρείαν) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if ye should enter into the land, which the Lord shall give you, as he has spoken, keep this service.
And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
Then Mattathias answered and spoke with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2999.
And if ye should enter into the land, which the Lord shall give you, as he has spoken, keep this service.
And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.
but that this may be a witness between you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the Lord before him, with our burnt offerings and our meat offerings and our peace offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, Ye have no portion in the Lord.
and the plan of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
Then Mattathias answered and spoke with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the aforementioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2999, grouped by book.
Strong's G2999 is a Greek entry for G2999 λατρείαν. latreia (lat-rei'-ah) n. 1. ministration of God, i.e. worship [from G3000]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G2999 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2999 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as god and divine. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2999, with linked reader references where each row is available.