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wor·ship
| \ ˈwər-shəp
also ˈwȯr- \
worshipped also worshiped ; worshipping also worshiping
1
: to honor or show reverence for as a divine being or supernatural power
2
: to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion
a celebrity worshipped by her fans
: to perform or take part in worship or an act of worship
1
: reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power
also
: an act of expressing such reverence
2
: a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
3
: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
worship of the dollar
4
chiefly British
: a person of importance
— used as a title for various officials (such as magistrates and some mayors)
worshipper
or less commonly worshiper noun
Noun
worship of gods and goddesses
Worship services are held daily.
the media's worship of celebrities
Attendees will use the event — as their predecessors have nearly every three years since 1785 — to socialize, worship as a group, and chart the denomination’s course for the coming few years.
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Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun , 7 July 2022
From providing a location for preschools or alcohol and addiction anonymous meetings, to collection drives for local food pantries or shelters for people experiencing homelessness, church impact extends beyond those who attend Sunday worship .
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Alison Cross, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022
The service, which lasted until 6 p.m., ran like a traditional service within a Black church, with a praise and worship performance from Aaron Moses, who is a part of the Maverick City gospel collective.
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Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022
In 1906, Ernst Otto Haenisch, calling himself Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish, visited here from Chicago to lecture about his sun worship faith, Mazdaznan.
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Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022
We've been forced to craft new ways to continue day-to-day routines of work, school, worship and play.
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George Negron, Forbes , 3 June 2022
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Like other houses of worship , the Jehovah’s Witnesses shut down their Kingdom Halls in March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Aug. 2022
Beneath the shops and houses that snaked through the city was a vast network of underground caves, hewn into soft chalk and serving a variety of possible purposes, from sites of worship to grain stores to clandestine hideouts.
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Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Aug. 2022
The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines, aesthetics and styles of worship for the modern, globalized church.
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Fox News , 23 Aug. 2022
The Neighborhood Scholars program offers tours of local places of worship , the Cleveland Public Library and The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Joan Rusek, cleveland , 22 Aug. 2022
But this time corruption involved places of worship ...
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Abbas Al Lawati And Adam Pourahmadi, CNN , 22 Aug. 2022
Most people’s schools, their place of worship might not be.
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Fortune Editors, Fortune , 17 Aug. 2022
Anba Angaelos, the archbishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in London, blamed restrictions on church construction that have forced Christians to convert residential buildings into places of worship .
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Samy Magdy, ajc , 15 Aug. 2022
No therapy or sense of worship can fix my heart !!!
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Los Angeles Times , 11 Aug. 2022
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wor·ship
| \ ˈwər-shəp
\
1
: deep respect toward God, a god, or a sacred object
2
: too much respect or admiration
worshipped also worshiped ; worshipping also worshiping
1
: to honor or respect as a divine being
2
: to regard with respect, honor, or devotion
She worships her son.
3
: to take part in worship or an act of worship
worshipper
or worshiper noun
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Definition of worship (Entry 2 of 2)
revere , reverence , venerate , worship , adore mean to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully. revere stresses deference and tenderness of feeling.
a professor revered by her students
reverence presupposes an intrinsic merit and inviolability in the one honored and a similar depth of feeling in the one honoring.
reverenced the academy's code of honor
venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.
heroes still venerated
worship implies homage usually expressed in words or ceremony.
worships their memory
adore implies love and stresses the notion of an individual and personal attachment.
we adored our doctor
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'worship.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback .
13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4
Middle English worþschipen, worschepen, worshippen "to hold in honor, esteem, show respect for, revere (a deity), conduct religious rites," derivative of wurðscip, worschip "honor, esteem, religious faith, rank, value" — more at worship entry 2
Middle English wurðscip, worschip "honor, esteem, renown, veneration, religious faith, a person's social standing, rank, value," going back to Old English weorþscipe, wurþscipe "honor, esteem, veneration, dignity," from weorþ, wyrþ, as noun "value" and as adjective "valuable, having status, deserving" + -scipe -ship — more at worth entry 1 , worth entry 3
“Worship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worship. Accessed 8 Sep. 2022.
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Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. We’re on a mission to change that. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ.
We end the week with a simple question — and often the best ones are. Pamela Khan, a listener to the podcast, asks simply, “Pastor John, what is worship?”
Let’s start with the inner essence of worship and then work out to the more public expressions of worship services or daily acts of love, which Paul calls our “spiritual worship” ( Romans 12:1 ).
The reason I make the distinction between the inner essence of worship and the external expression of it is because I think Jesus did in Matthew 15:8–9 : “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me.”
For Jesus, this worship amounts to zero. That is what “vain” means. “In vain do they worship me.” Zero. It is not worship. This is a zero worship. It is zero if there is no heart dimension to it. So, you can do as many deeds as you want and go to as many church services as you want and never be worshiping if it is all external and nothing is happening in your heart toward God. All true worship is in essence a matter of the heart. It is more, but it is not less.
Then the question becomes: What is this inner, authentic, godward experience of the heart that we call the essence of worship? Jesus pointed us toward an answer in John 4:23–24 when he said, “The hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” Notice that worshiping in spirit is not contrasted with worshiping in the body or with the body. Instead, it is put alongside worshiping in truth.
So what would that mean, that we are to be spirit-worshipers, worshiping from the spirit, and truth, driven by truth? I think the point is that when we worship — right worship, good worship, pleasing worship — depends on a right mental grasp of the way God really is, truth.
If we worship an idol of our own creation, we are not really worshiping God.
Secondly, worship depends on a right spiritual or emotional or affectional heart-grasp of God’s supreme value. So true worship is based on a right understanding of God’s nature, and it is a right valuing of God’s worth.
Of course, his worth is infinite. Thus, true worship is a valuing or a treasuring of God above all things. That would be the closest I am going to give to a definition, I suppose. True worship is a valuing or a treasuring of God above all things.
The inner essence of worship is the response of the heart to the knowledge of the mind when the mind is rightly understanding God and the heart is rightly valuing God.
Or you could use words like treasuring or prizing God or delighting in God or reverencing God or being satisfied with God. All of these inner responses to God reflect his infinite worth and beauty. That is what worship was designed to do: put the supreme worth of God on display.
In fact, the English word “worship” comes from worth ship . That is, worship is showing, displaying the worth of God.
We worship God authentically when we know him truly and treasure him duly. Then the word “worship” refers to that valuing, that inner valuing, becoming visible in the world in two basic ways in the New Testament.
One is acts of the mouth: acts of praise and repentance in worship services or small group gatherings.
The other is acts of love with the body and the hands and the feet: acts of love that show the supreme value of God by what we are willing to sacrifice for the good of others.
I get those two things from Hebrews 13:15–16 . Listen to this amazing summary. It says, “Through him, then,” — through Christ — “let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.”
Those two verses begin and end with the term “sacrifice.” Of course, the sacrifice is an echo from the Old Testament sacrifices which were at the center of the worship and were to display the value of God as we gave up a bull or a goat and showed that God is precious to us.
We value his redemption that comes to us through the sacrifice and now through the sacrifice of Christ. So through Christ two things become worshipful sacrifices in our life: the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name; that is, worship services in singing and praying and repenting and confessing, and secondly, the fruit of deeds.
Don’t neglect to do good. Share what you have. Such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Both of those are acts of worship.
You see it again in Romans 12:1 : “I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable, which is your spiritual service of worship.” So all of our bodily life done in love for other and in reliance upon God display the worth of God above all things and make us worshipers in our daily life.
So, here is my summary: The inner essence of worship is to know God truly and then respond from the heart to that knowledge by valuing God, treasuring God, prizing God, enjoying God, being satisfied with God above all earthly things. And then that deep, restful, joyful satisfaction in God overflows in demonstrable acts of praise from the lips and demonstrable acts of love in serving others for the sake of Christ.
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