Ministry
The word "ministry" barely appears in the Old Testament four times
- Numbers 4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry,[1] 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:
The second time it is the word abodah[2] translated service 96 times but servile 12 times, work 10, bondage 8, act 2, serve 2, servitude 2, tillage 2, effect and labour once each.
- 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,
The third and last appearanceappearance is still from another word. The word is yad[3] and can mean the hand of man.
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
- Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
- ↑ 08335 ^תרשׁ^ shareth \@shaw-rayth’\@ infinitive of 08334; n m; AV-ministry 1, minister 1; 2 1) ministry, religious ministry, service in the tabernacle
- ↑ 05656 ^הדבע^ ‘abodah \@ab-o-daw’\@ or ^הדובע^ ‘abowdah \@ab-o-daw’\@
from 05647; n f; AV-service 96, servile 12, work 10, bondage 8, act 2, serve 2, servitude 2, tillage 2, effect 1, labour 1, misc 5; 141
- 1) labour, service
- 1a) labour, work
- 1b) labour (of servant or slave)
- 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
- 1d) service (of God)
- 1) labour, service
- ↑ 03027 ^די^ yad \@yawd\@ a primitive word; n f; AV-hand 1359, by 44, consecrate + 04390 14, him 14, power 12, them 11, places 8, tenons 6, thee 6, coast 6, side 5, misc 130; 1615
- 1) hand
- 1a) hand (of man)
- 1b) strength, power (fig.)
- 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)
- 1d) (various special, technical senses)
- 1d1) sign, monument
- 1d2) part, fractional part, share
- 1d3) time, repetition
- 1d4) axle-trees, axle
- 1d5) stays, support (for laver)
- 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle)
- 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)
- 1d8) wrists
- 1) hand