1209. dechomai {dekh'-om-ahee}; middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively): --accept, receive, take. Compare 2983. 1223. dia {dee-ah'}; a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional): --after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause)...fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with(-in). In composition it retains the same general import. ***. Dia. See 2203. 1228. diabolos {dee-ab'-ol-os}; from 1225; a traducer; specially, Satan [compare 7854]: --false accuser, devil, slanderer. 1242. diatheke {dee-ath-ay'-kay}; from 1303; properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will): --covenant, testament. 1248. diakonia {dee-ak-on-ee'-ah}; from 1249; attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or techn. of the diaconate): --(ad-)minister(-ing, -tration, -try), office, relief, service(-ing). 1249. diakonos {dee-ak'-on-os}; probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands; compare 1377); an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess): --deacon, minister, servant. 1271. dianoia {dee-an'-oy-ah}; from 1223 and 3563; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise: --imagination, mind, understanding. ~~~~~~