Romans 15:27:20Rom.15.27.W20TAB
λειτουργῆσαι
leitourgêsai
“to serve”
- Transliteration
- lei-tour-GÊ-sai
- Extended
- lei-tour-GEH-sai
- IPA
- /lei.turˈgɛː.sai/
Meaning by language
- English
- to serve
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
lei-tour-GÊ-sai
- sentence
eu-DO-kê-san GAR KAI o-phei-LE-tai EI-sin au-TÔN ei gar tois pneu-ma-ti-KOIS au-TÔN e-koi-NÔ-nê-san ta E-thnê o-PHEI-lou-sin kai en tois sar-ki-KOIS lei-tour-GÊ-sai au-TOIS
Exegesis
The coordinated phrase kai en tois sarkikois leitourgesai autois {καὶ ἐν τοῖς σαρκικοῖς λειτουργῆσαι αὐτοῖς | kaí en toîs sar-ki-koîs lei-tour-gê-sai au-toîs} sets up a parallel between spiritual participation and material ministry: the prepositional en with the dative “material things” marks the sphere in which the infinitive leitourgesai ‘to minister’ is to be carried out, and autois identifies the beneficiaries. The Greek sentence thus moves from voluntary pleasure, to recognized indebtedness, to a conditional argument that grounds material service in prior spiritual sharing, which is reflected in English by preserving the two gar clauses and the “if… also” conditional structure.
In context — Romans 15:27
For they were pleased, and they are indeed debtors to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they also are obliged to minister to them in material things.
About this coordinate
Romans 15:27:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of Romans 15:27, so the Greek word λειτουργῆσαι (leitourgêsai) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rom.15.27.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (Rom.15.27.W20.S1) and character.