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ministers

Meaning of “ministers”

Persons who serve, attend, or perform an entrusted office.

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26 occurrences24 verses13 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 1 Kings 10:5

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Ezekiel 45:5
And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 45:5 · retained source text

And the fiue and twenty thousand of length, and the tenne thousand of breadth, shall also the Leuites the ministers of the house haue for themselues, for a possession for twentie chambers.

Ezekiel 46:24
Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 46:24 · retained source text

Then said he vnto me, These are the places of them that boyle, where the ministers of the house shall boyle the sacrifice of the people.

Joel 1:9
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joel 1:9 · retained source text

The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the LORD, the Priestes the LORDs ministers mourne.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Joel 1:13 · retained source text

Gird your selues, and lament, yee Priests: howle, ye ministers of the Altar: come, lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drinke offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joel 2:17 · retained source text

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weepe betweene the porch and the altar, & let them say; Spare thy people O LORD, and giue not thine heritage to reproch; that the heathen should rule ouer them: Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

1611 marginal noteOr, vse a byword against them.

1611 marginal notePsal.42.11. and 79.10. and 115 2.

Luke 1:2
Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 1:2 · retained source text

Euen as they deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses, & ministers of the word:

Romans 13:6
For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Romans 13:6 · retained source text

For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are Gods ministers, attending continually vpon this very thing.

1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 3:5 · retained source text

Who then is Paul? and who is Apollo? but ministers by whom ye beleeued, euen as the Lord gaue to euery man.

1 Corinthians 4:1
LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 4:1 · retained source text

¶ Let a man so account of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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1611 witness · 2 Corinthians 3:6 · retained source text

Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.

1611 marginal noteOr, quickneth.

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