שָׁרַת
shârath · shaw-rath'
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
- to attend as a menial or worshipper
- figuratively, to contribute to
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: minister (unto), (do) serve(-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest › the mark, the covenant sign
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁרַת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
97 occurrences · 97 OT · 0 NT · 71 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to minister21 · 31%
- that ministered5 · 7%
- the ministers3 · 4%
- ye ministers3 · 4%
- to do service3 · 4%
- that minister3 · 4%
- ministered3 · 4%
- that served2 · 3%
- of his ministers2 · 3%
- thereof, wherewith they minister2 · 3%
- and ministered2 · 3%
- minister2 · 3%
- wherewith they minister2 · 3%
- to serve2 · 3%
- shall minister2 · 3%
- wherewith they ministered2 · 3%
- unto thee, and minister1 · 1%
- the servant1 · 1%
- that they may minister1 · 1%
- thereof; and they shall minister1 · 1%
- but his servant1 · 1%
- but shall minister1 · 1%
- and his minister1 · 1%
- with them, and he served1 · 1%
- and he served1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.