ἐνεργέω energeō

Greek word for “be active” · Strong’s G1754 · used 21 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

ἐνεργέω, -ῶ; (for full lexical treatment, see AR, Eph., 243 ff.);

How it is translated

Glosses given for energeō in context, with how often each is used:

• working 10
• works 3
• work 2
• operate 1
• operating 1
• having worked 1
• did 1
• worked 1
• being made effective 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 12 (2), Ephesians 1 (2), Matthew 14 (1), Mark 6 (1), Romans 7 (1), 2 Corinthians 1 (1), 2 Corinthians 4 (1), Galatians 2 (1), Galatians 3 (1), Galatians 5 (1)

Forms

• ἐνεργῶν 3
• ἐνεργεῖται 3
• ἐνεργοῦσιν 2
• ἐνήργησεν 2
• ἐνεργουμένη 2
• ἐνεργοῦντος 2
• ἐνεργουμένην 2
• ἐνηργεῖτο 1
• ἐνεργεῖ 1
• ἐνεργουμένης 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with energeō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• δύναμις dunamis “power” 5
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 4
• νεκρός nekros “dead” 3
• πάθημα pathēma “suffering” 2
• ἐγείρω egeirō “to arise” 3
• ἀκοή akoē “hearing” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 4
• ἰσχύω ischuō “be strong” 2
• περιτομή peritomē “circumcision” 2
• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 3
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 2
• Ἰωάννης Iōannēs “John” 2

Key verses

The verses using energeō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 7:5 — For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• 1 Corinthians 12:11 — But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
• Galatians 2:8 — (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
• Galatians 5:6 — For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Ephesians 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Ephesians 1:20 — Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
• Ephesians 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the…
• Ephesians 3:20 — Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
• Philippians 2:13 — For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Colossians 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as…
• James 5:16 — Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.