public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver)

in cl. (chiefly of Athens), (v. LS, s.v.), hence, the discharge of a public office at one's own expense , ; in (Deiss., , 140 f.) and in LXX (though here also of secular service, , al.), of religious service or ministration; and so in NT: of priestly ministrations, , ; fig., , ; of Christian beneficence, , .† a service ministry π. θυσία καὶ λ. τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν BS III Ki 1:4 Lk 1:23 He 8:6 9:21 Phl 2:17 II Co 9:12 Phl 2:30

public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver)

ministration(-try), service