Strong's G1249

διάκονος

Transliteration

diákonos

Definition

an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess)

KJV usage

deacon, minister, servant

Derivation

probably from an obsolete (to run on errands; compare G1377 (διώκω));

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Greek dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.