Ministry
The word "ministry" barely appears in the Old Testament four times
- Numbers 4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:
The word is shareth[1] which appears only twice in the Bile. Once as ministry and once as minister. It is from the word Sharath[2] which has the same three letters in Hebrew ShinReishTav [תרשׁ].[3] Sharath is translated as a verb and a noun in the forms of minister, serve, servant, and service.
The second time it is the word abodah[4] translated service 96 times but servile 12 times, work 10, bondage 8, act 2, serve 2, servitude 2, tillage 2, effect and labour once each.
- Numbers 4:47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
The third and last appearance is still from another word. The word is yad[5] and is almost never translated ministry. It commonly refers to the hand (of man) or by someone or the power of some office, like a Levite or office of a priest.
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
- Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
In the new testament the word ministry almost always appears as diakonia [6] which often has to do with an administrative office of the Church appointed by Christ.
Twice we see the word leitourgia [7] from which we get the word liturgy translated ministry but it too means a public office.
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Footnotes
- ↑ 08335 ^תרשׁ^ shareth \@shaw-rayth’\@ infinitive of 08334; n m; AV-ministry 1, minister 1; 2 1) ministry, religious ministry, service in the tabernacle
- ↑ 08334 ^תרשׁ^ sharath \@shaw-rath’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-minister (v) 62, minister (n) 17, serve 8, servant 5, service 3, servitor 1, waited 1; 97 1) (Piel) to minister, serve, minister to
- ↑ ש SHIN Eternal Flame of Revelation bound to the coal Divine Essence." [sun... teeth... consume destroy] 300
- ר REISH Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] 200
- ת TAV is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm. The malchut to the keter (crown) through faith. It links the unseen worlds like a doorway of faith. [sign cross... seal] 400
- Two shin n mean a sixth part of something or something bleached white like the linen Breeches of the Levites.
- Reish has to do with leading a process and in this word that would mean a process of our faith because the last letter is a Tav.
- ↑ 05656 ^הדבע^ ‘abodah \@ab-o-daw’\@ or ^הדובע^ ‘abowdah \@ab-o-daw’\@
from 05647; n f; AV-service 96, servile 12, work 10, bondage 8, act 2, serve 2, servitude 2, tillage 2, effect 1, labour 1, misc 5; 141
- 1) labour, service
- 1a) labour, work
- 1b) labour (of servant or slave)
- 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
- 1d) service (of God)
- 1) labour, service
- ↑ 03027 ^די^ yad \@yawd\@ a primitive word; n f; AV-hand 1359, by 44, consecrate + 04390 14, him 14, power 12, them 11, places 8, tenons 6, thee 6, coast 6, side 5, misc 130; 1615
- 1) hand
- 1a) hand (of man)
- 1b) strength, power (fig.)
- 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)
- 1d) (various special, technical senses)
- 1d1) sign, monument
- 1d2) part, fractional part, share
- 1d3) time, repetition
- 1d4) axle-trees, axle
- 1d5) stays, support (for laver)
- 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle)
- 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)
- 1d8) wrists
- 1) hand
- ↑ 1248 ~διακονία~ diakonia \@dee-ak-on-ee’-ah\@ from n f AV-ministry 16, ministration 6, ministering 3, misc 9; 34
- 1) service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others
- 2) of those who by the command of God proclaim and promote religion among men
- 2a) of the office of Moses
- 2b) of the office of the apostles and its administration
- 2c) of the office of prophets, evangelists, elders etc.
- 3) the ministration of those who render to others the offices of Christian affection esp. those who help meet need by either collecting or distributing of charities
- 4) the office of the deacon in the church
- 5) the service of those who prepare and present food
- ↑ 3009 ~λειτουργία~ leitourgia \@li-toorg-ee’-ah\@ from 3008; } n f AV-service 3, ministry 2, ministration 1; 6
- 1) a public office which a citizen undertakes to administer at his own expense
- 2) any service
- 2a) of military service
- 2b) of the service of workmen
- 2c) of that done to nature in the cohabitation of man and wife
- 3) biblical usage
- 3a) a service or ministry of the priests relative to the prayers and sacrifices offered to God
- 3b) a gift or benefaction for the relief of the needy