Minister

Minister one who acts as the less (from minus or minor) or inferior agent, in obedience or subservience to another, or who serves, officiates, etc., as distinguished from the master, magister (from magis), or superior. It is used in the A.V. to describe various officials of a religious and civil character. The words so translated in the Scriptures are the following:

1. משָׁרֵת, meshareth', which is applied,

(1) to an attendant upon a person in high rank, as to Joshua in relation to Moses (Ex 24:13, Sept. παρεστηκὼς αὐτῷ; Aquila and Symm. ὁ λειτουργὸς αὐτοῦ; comp. Ex 33:11, Sept. θεράπων Ι᾿ησοῦς; Nu 11:28; Jos 1:1, Sept. ὑπουργὸς Μωυσῆ; Alex. λιτουργός), and to the attendant on the prophet Elisha (2Ki 4:43; 2Ki 6:15, Sept. λειτουργός; comp. 2Ki 3:11; 1Ki 19:21);