ἐργάζομαι ergazomai

Greek word for “to work” · Strong’s G2038 · used 41 times in 39 verses

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Meaning

ἐργάζομαι; (ἔργον); 1.

How it is translated

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

• working 15
• work 4
• do work 3
• did 2
• doing 2
• traded 1
• done 1
• may be doing 1
• work do you perform? 1
• does do 1
• work? 1
• produces 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Thessalonians 3 (4), John 6 (3), Romans 4 (2), 1 Corinthians 9 (2), Matthew 7 (1), Matthew 21 (1), Matthew 25 (1), Matthew 26 (1), Mark 14 (1), Luke 13 (1)

Forms

• ἐργαζόμενοι 6
• ἐργάζεσθαι 6
• ἐργάζεται 5
• ἠργάσατο 3
• ἐργάζεσθε 3
• ἐργαζομένῳ 3
• ἐργάζομαι 2
• ἐργαζώμεθα 2
• ἐργαζόμενος 2
• ἐργάζου 1

Words used with it

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

• ἔργον ergon “work” 7
• κόπος kopos “labor” 4
• δικαιοσύνη dikaiosunē “righteousness” 4
• παραγγέλλω parangellō “to order” 3
• ἐπιβαρέω epibareō “to burden” 2
• μόχθος mochthos “toil” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 5
• ἐσθίω esthiō “to eat” 3
• νύξ nux “night” 3
• ἀγαθός agathos “good” 3
• ἐάν ean “if” 4
• ἴδιος idios “one's own/private” 3

Key verses

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

• Matthew 21:28 — But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
• John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the…
• John 9:4 — I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
• Acts 10:35 — But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
• Acts 13:41 — Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
• Romans 2:10 — But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
• 2 Corinthians 7:10 — For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• Galatians 6:10 — As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
• Ephesians 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the…
• 1 Thessalonians 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 2 John 1:8 — Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

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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.