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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

2. (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.

3. (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.

4. (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.

Greek

3610. oiketes -- a household (of servants)
... household servant. From oikeo; a fellow resident, ie Menial domestic -- (household)
servant. see GREEK oikeo. (oiketai) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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2210. zemioo -- to damage, suffer loss
... in every scene of life by living in faith ("His inworked persuasion," 4102 , Phil
3:8,9). This eternal gain always follows, no matter how "menial" or "mundane ...
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2324. therapon -- an attendant
... servant. Apparently a participle from an otherwise obsolete derivative of the base
of theros; a menial attendant (as if cherishing) -- servant. ...
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1249. diakonos -- a servant, minister
... Probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands; compare dioko); an attendant,
ie (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially ...
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3000. latreuo -- to serve
... serve, do the service, worship. From latris (a hired menial); to minister (to God),
ie Render religious homage -- serve, do the service, worship(-per). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8334. sharath -- to minister, serve
... A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute
to -- minister (unto), (do) serve(- ant, -ice, -itor), wait on. ...
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Library

From Jezreel to Horeb
... exalted in their own estimation. There are those who feel above performing
duties that to them appear menial. They hesitate to perform ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 12 from jezreel to.htm

The Last Supper.
... full consciousness of his divinity, his divine power and majesty, of the glory that
he had and would enjoy with God, that he stooped to the menial office that ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/the last supper.htm

The Servant-Master
... the greatest,' which broke the sanctities of the upper chamber, was connected with
the unwillingness of each of the Apostles to perform the menial office of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the servant-master.htm

Early Days
... There is no trace of Jesse having servants; his youngest child does menial work;
the present which he sends to his king when David goes to court was simple ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/ii early days.htm

The Manifestation of the Messiah
... beautiful humility. He insisted that he was not worthy to perform the
most menial service for Him whose advent he announced. "I ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/vii the manifestation of the.htm

The Faithful Servant
... But his paralyzed tongue would not serve him, and his menial ignorance had not
provided him with the means of telling his desire by writing. ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxi the faithful servant.htm

Dress as Connected with Idolatry.
... [307] If, also, He exercised no right of power even over His own followers, to whom
He discharged menial ministry; [308] if, in short, though conscious of His ...
/.../tertullian/on idolatry/chapter xviii dress as connected with.htm

On Reading.
... Indeed it is a subject both of surprise and sorrow to see an author of the most
menial abilities lauded to the skies for a book still more abject than himself ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter xxi on reading.htm

Impure Loves Ascribed to the Gods.
... "Admetus' halls, in which I have endured. To praise the menial table, though a god."
[779]. And they tend cattle:". "And coming to this land, I cattle fed,. ...
/.../athenagoras/a plea for the christians/chapter xxi impure loves ascribed to.htm

Behaviour in the Baths.
... shut out strangers; but bathe with their own servants, and strip naked before their
slaves, and are rubbed by them; giving to the crouching menial liberty to ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter v behaviour in the baths.htm

Thesaurus

Menial (1 Occurrence)
... servile offices. 4. (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Multi-Version Concordance Menial (1 Occurrence). Romans 9 ...
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Nethinim (16 Occurrences)
... books of Scripture. The word means given, ie, "those set apart", viz., to
the menial work of the sanctuary for the Levites. The name ...
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Servants (763 Occurrences)
... These must have been more or less menial, the more formal and honorable duties being
reserved for "the priests and Levites, the singers, (and) porters" (Ezra 7 ...
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Solomon's (56 Occurrences)
... These must have been more or less menial, the more formal and honorable duties being
reserved for "the priests and Levites, the singers, (and) porters" (Ezra 7 ...
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Knave (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A boy; especially, a boy servant. 2. (n.) Any male servant; a menial. 3.
(n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. ...
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Leg (24 Occurrences)
... leg," the idea being that the gentle maid, who has been brought up in affluence
and luxury, will have to don the attire of a slave girl and do menial work, for ...
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Grub (2 Occurrences)
... difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging. 2. (vi) To drudge;
to do menial work. 3. (vt) To dig; to dig up by the roots ...
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Foot (193 Occurrences)
... The undoing of the latchets or leather thongs of the sandals (Mark 1:7 Luke
3:16 John 1:27) seems to refer to the same menial duty. ...
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Rab-saris (3 Occurrences)
... The oriental custom was for the king to surround himself with a number of eunuchs,
who performed varied kinds of services, both menial and dignified. ...
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Rabsaris (3 Occurrences)
... The oriental custom was for the king to surround himself with a number of eunuchs,
who performed varied kinds of services, both menial and dignified. ...
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Bible Concordance

Menial (1 Occurrence)

Romans 9:21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
(See RSV)

Subtopics

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