Hebrew

Ministry

שָׁרֵתStrong’s H8335

sharet (sha-ret)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sharet is the Hebrew word usually translated “service”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:”

Numbers 4:12 KJV

Meaning

Ministry, religious ministry, service in the tabernacle

How it's translated

service 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Numbers 1
2 Chronicles 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

2 Chronicles 24:14And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁרֵת sharet · ministry

ministry, religious ministry, service in the tabernacle

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “ministry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MIN'ISTRY, noun

[Latin ministerium.]

The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind.

Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality.
Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests, apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1:17 Romans 12:7 2 Timothy 4:5 Numbers 4:12
Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical.
Persons who compose the executive government or the council of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.

All definitions

Business; employment.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.