λατρεία

latreiva latreiva,
latreiva",
hJ (
latreuvw, which see);1. in Greek authors "service rendered for hire; then any service or ministration (Tragg., Plutarch, Lucian); the service of God":
tou'
Qeou', Plato, Apology 23 b.;
katafugei'n
prov"
qew'n
eujcav"
tev
kaiv
latreiva", ibid. Phaedr., p. 244 e.; servitus religionis, quam
latreivan Graeci vocant, Augustine civ. dei 5, 15.2. in the Greek Bible, the service or worship of God according to the requirements of the levitical law (Hebrew hd;bo[}, f, etc.): ; (,);
latreivan
prosfevrein
tw'/
Qew'/ (to offer service to God) equivalent to
qusivan
prosfevrein
eij"
latreivan (to offer a sacrifice in service), ;
ejpitelei'n
tav"
latreiva", to perform the sacred services (see
ejpitelevw, 1), spoken of the priests, ; universally, of any worship of God,
hJ
logikh
latreiva, (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 59, 9 a.); (of the worship of idols, ).*