λειτουργία

λειτουργία, -ας, ἡ

(λειτουργέω), [in LXX chiefly for עֲבֹדָה, 4 Mos 4,24, 1 Kron 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, 1 Kong 1,4, al.), of religious service or ministration; and so in NT: of priestly ministrations, Luk 1,23, Hebr 8,6; 9,21; figuratively, θυσία καὶ λ. τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, Fil 2,17 of Christian beneficence, 2 Kor 9,12, Fil 2,30.†