Office
The word officer today can mean someone in power either over people or things for which they are responsible. It has been defined as "a holder of a public, civil, or ecclesiastical office."
We see a word in the Bible's New Testament translated officer some 11 times[1] but also translated servant[2] and minister.[3] The word is huperetes[4] which can refer to an assistant to a judge, or a soldier or police officer or anyone who serves someone else.
The word is often translated officer when referring to the government agents who opposed Christ but servant when used by Christ or his followers to reference ministers of the Church or kingdom of God at hand.
This might lead some people to think that Jesus did not appoint officers. He clearly did appoint men to take care of the business of the kingdom of God and we called those men the ekklesia or church but he did restrict from exercising authority one over the other.
The word huperetes was from the word eresso meaning to row. We all know we are to live by faith, hope and charity and the perfect law of liberty. Which means that we need to take care of one another. That is what Religion use to mean before Modern Christians allowed the word to be redefined. Pure Religion was taking care of the needy of society without the covetous aid of the Benefactors and their officers of the World nor the Fathers of the earth who exercised authority one over the other through their public officers.
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- ↑ : Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer <5257>, and thou be cast into prison.
- John 7:32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers <5257> to take him.
- John 7:45 Then came the officers <5257> to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
- John 7:46 The officers <5257> answered, Never man spake like this man.
- John 18:3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers <5257> from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
- John 18:12 Then the band and the captain and officers <5257> of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
- John 18:18 And the servants and officers <5257> stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
- John 18:22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers <5257> which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
- John 19:6 When the chief priests therefore and officers <5257> saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
- Acts 5:22 But when the officers <5257> came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
- Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers <5257>, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- ↑ : Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants <5257>, to see the end.
- Mark 14:54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants <5257>, and warmed himself at the fire.
- Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants <5257> did strike him with the palms of their hands.
- John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants <5257> fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
- ↑ : Luke 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers <5257> of the word;
- Luke 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister <5257>, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
- Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister <5257>.
- Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister <5257> and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
- 1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers <5257> of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
- ↑ 5257 ~ὑπηρέτης~ huperetes \@hoop-ay-ret’-ace\@ from 5259 and a derivative of eresso (to row); n m AV-officer 11, minister 5, servant 4; 20
- 1) servant
- 1a) an underrower, subordinate rower
- 1b) any one who serves with hands: a servant
- 1b1) in the NT of the officers and attendants of magistrates as — of the officer who executes penalties
- 1b2) of the attendants of a king, servants, retinue, the soldiers of a king, of the attendant of a synagogue
- 1b3) of any one ministering or rendering service
- 1c) any one who aids another in any work
- 1c1) an assistant
- 1c2) of the preacher of the gospel
- For Synonyms see entry 5834 & 5928
- 1) servant