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ministry

Meaning of “ministry”

Sense 1: Service or appointed work, including the duties of an office or charge. Sense 2: The agency, instrumentality, or means by which service is performed.

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Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
22 occurrences22 verses12 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Numbers 4:12

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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:
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 4:12 · retained source text

And they shall take all the instruments of ministery, wherewith they minister in the Sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blew, and couer them with a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put them on a barre.

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,
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1611 witness · Numbers 4:47 · retained source text

From thirty yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fifty yeeres old, euery one that came to doe the seruice of the ministery, and the seruice of the burden in the Tabernacle of the Congregation:

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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,

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind. Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality.

volume 2, leaves 139-140 (noun entry)