λατρεία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=λατρείας, ἡ ([[λατρεύω]], [[which]] [[see]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> in Greek authors "[[service]] rendered for [[hire]]; [[then]] [[any]] [[service]] or [[ministration]] (Tragg., [[Plutarch]], Lucian); the [[service]] of God": [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, [[Plato]], Apology 23b.; καταφυγεῖν [[πρός]] [[θεῶν]] εὐχάς τέ καί λατρείας, ibid. Phaedr., p. 244e.; servitus religionis, quam λατρείαν Graeci vocant, Augustine civ. dei 5,15.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in the Greek Bible, the [[service]] or [[worship]] of God according to the requirements of the levitical [[law]] ([[Hebrew]] עֲבֹדָה, λατρείαν προσφέρειν τῷ Θεῷ (to [[offer]] [[service]] to God) equivalent to θυσίαν προσφέρειν [[εἰς]] λατρείαν (to [[offer]] a [[sacrifice]] in [[service]]), ἐπιτελεῖν τάς λατρείας, to [[perform]] the [[sacred]] services ([[see]] [[ἐπιτελέω]], 1), [[spoken]] of the priests, ἡ λογικη [[λατρεία]], Winer's Grammar, § 59,9a.); (of the [[worship]] of idols, 1 Maccabees 1:43).