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διάκονον (diakonon)

διάκονον is an Ancient Greek form of διάκονος, meaning “servant, minister, deacon”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aristophanes, Birds 73: ὄρνιν, ἵνʼ ἀκόλουθον διάκονόν τʼ ἔχῃ.

New Testament, Romans 15.8: λέγω γὰρ Χριστὸν διάκονον γεγενῆσθαι περιτομῆς ὑπὲρ ἀληθείας θεοῦ, εἰς τὸ βεβαιῶσαι τὰς ἐπαγγελίας τῶν πατέρων,

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 7.11.26: Καὶ τοσαῦτα μὲν ὁ Διονύσιος. ἰστέον δὲ ὡς ὁ μὲν Εὐσέβιος, ὃν διακονον προσεῖπεν, σμικρὸν ὕστερον ἐπίσκοπος τῆς κατὰ Συρίαν Λαοδικείας καθἱσταται, ὁ δὲ Μάξιμος, ὃν τότε πρεσβύτερον …

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.