1 Timothy 3:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διακόνους Ὡσαύτως σεμνούς, μὴ διλόγους, μὴ οἴνῳ πολλῷ προσέχοντας, μὴ αἰσχροκερδεῖς·

Transliteration

Diakonous hōsautōs semnous, mē dilogous, mē oinō pollō prosechontas, mē aischrokerdeis;

Grammar Details

• *Diakonous*: noun, accusative, masculine, plural - deacons/servants
• *hōsautōs*: adverb - likewise/in the same way
• *semnous*: adjective, accusative, masculine, plural - dignified/honorable
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *dilogous*: adjective, accusative, masculine, plural - double-tongued/two-faced
• *oinō*: noun, dative, masculine, singular - wine
• *pollō*: adjective, dative, masculine, singular - much/many
• *prosechontas*: participle, present, active, accusative, masculine, plural - giving attention to/addicted to
• *aischrokerdeis*: adjective, accusative, masculine, plural - greedy for dishonest gain

Word Meanings

• *Diakonous*: deacons/servants/ministers
• *hōsautōs*: likewise/in the same way/similarly
• *semnous*: dignified/honorable/respectable
• *dilogous*: double-tongued/two-faced/saying one thing to one person and another to another
• *oinō pollō prosechontas*: giving attention to much wine/addicted to much wine
• *aischrokerdeis*: greedy for dishonest gain/pursuing shameful gain

Referenced Verses

• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
• Titus 2:3 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
• Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
• Lev 10:9 : 9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
• Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the {G40} Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased {G1799} the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch; 6 whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
• Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
• Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
• Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
• Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.
• Jas 3:10 : 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
• 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;