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διάκονοι (diakonoi)

διάκονοι is an Ancient Greek form of διάκονος, meaning “servant, minister, deacon”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, John 2.9: ὡς δὲ ἐγεύσατο ὁ ἀρχιτρίκλινος τὸ ὕδωρ οἶνον γεγενημένον, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει πόθεν ἐστίν, οἱ δὲ διάκονοι ᾔδεισαν οἱ ἠντληκότες τὸ ὕδωρ, φωνεῖ τὸν νυμφίον ὁ ἀρχιτρίκλινος

Lucian of Samosata, Juppiter Confutatus 11: οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλʼ ἡ Μοῖρα διʼ ἡμῶν ἕκαστα ἐπιτελεῖ. μανθάνω· ὑπηρέται καὶ διάκονοί τινες τῶν Μοιρῶν εἶναί φατε. πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ οὕτως ἐκεῖναι ἂν εἶεν αἱ προνοοῦσαι, ὑμεῖς δὲ ὥσπερ σκεύη τινὰ καὶ …

All forms of διάκονος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.