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Lexicon :: Strong's G2038 - ergazomai

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ἐργάζομαι
Transliteration
ergazomai (Key)
Pronunciation
er-gad'-zom-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice from ἔργον (G2041)
mGNT
41x in 18 unique form(s) TR
39x in 18 unique form(s) LXX
96x in 32 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:635,251

Strong’s Definitions

ἐργάζομαι ergázomai, er-gad'-zom-ahee; middle voice from G2041; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.:—commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's G2038 in the following manner: work (22x), wrought (7x), do (3x), minister about (1x), forbear working (with G3361) (1x), labour for (1x), labour (1x), commit (1x), trade by (1x), trade (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's G2038 in the following manner: work (22x), wrought (7x), do (3x), minister about (1x), forbear working (with G3361) (1x), labour for (1x), labour (1x), commit (1x), trade by (1x), trade (1x).

  1. to work, labour, do work

  2. to trade, to make gains by trading, "do business"

  3. to do, work out

    1. exercise, perform, commit

    2. to cause to exist, produce

  4. to work for, earn by working, to acquire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐργάζομαι ergázomai, er-gad'-zom-ahee; middle voice from G2041; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.:—commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work.
STRONGS G2038:
ἐργάζομαι; deponent middle; imperfect ἐιργαζομην (ἠργαζομην, Acts 18:3 L T Tr WH; (so elsewhere at times; this variant in augment is found in the aorist also); cf. Winers Grammar, sec 12, 8; Buttmann, 33 (29f); Stephanus Thesaurus iii. 1970 c.; (Curtius, Das Verbum, i. 124; Cramer, Anecd. 4, 412; Veitch, under the word)); 1 aorist εἰργασάμην (ἠργάσατο, Matthew 25:16; (Matthew 26:10); Mark 14:6, in T WH, (add, 2 John 1:8 WH and Hebrews 11:33 T Tr WH; cf. references as above)); pf. εἴργασμαι, in a pass. sense (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 7 e.), John 3:21, as often in Greek writings (cf. Veitch, under the word); (ἔργον); Sept. for פָּעַל, עָבַד, sometimes for עָשָׂה.;
1. absolutely,
a. to work, labor, do work: it is opposite to inactivity or idleness, Luke 13:14; John 5:17; John 9:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; with addition of ταῖς χερσί, 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; with the accusative of time: νύκτα καί ἡμέραν, 2 Thessalonians 3:8 (but L text T Tr WH the genitive, as in 1 Thessalonians 2:9 (see ἡμέρα, 1 a.); cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 11 and Ellic. on 1 Timothy 5:5); with the predominant idea of working for pay, Matthew 21:28 (ἐν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι); Acts 18:3; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:12; according to the conception characteristic of Paul, ὁ ἐργαζόμενος he that does works conformed to the law (Germ.der Werkthatige): Romans 4:4f.
b. to trade, to make gains by trading, (cf. our do business): ἐν τίνι, with a thing, Matthew 25:16 (often so by Demosthenes).
2. transitive,
a. (to work, i. e.) to do, work out: τί, Colossians 3:23; 2 John 1:8 (with which (according to reading of L T Tr text) cf. 1 Corinthians 15:58 end); μηδέν, 2 Thessalonians 3:11 ἔργον, Acts 13:41 (פֹּעַל פָּעַל, Habakkuk 1:5); ἔργον καλόν εἰς τινα, Matthew 26:10; ἐν τίνι (the dative of person (cf. Winer's Grammar, 218 (205))), Mark 14:6 (Rec. εἰς ἐμέ); ἔργα, wrought, passive, John 3:21; τά ἔργα τοῦ Θεοῦ, what God wishes to be done, John 6:28; John 9:4; τοῦ κυρίου, to give one's strength to the work which the Lord wishes to have done, 1 Corinthians 16:10; τό ἀγαθόν, (Romans 2:10); Ephesians 4:28; πρός τινα, Galatians 6:10; κακόν τίνι τί, Romans 13:10 (τινα τί is more common in Greek writings. (Kühner, § 411, 5)); τί εἰς τινα, 3 John 1:5, with the accusative of virtues or vices, (to work, i. e.) to exercise, perform, commit": δικαιοσύνην, Acts 10:35; Hebrews 11:33, (Psalm 14:2 (Ps. 15:2); Zephaniah 2:3); τήν ἀνομίαν, Matthew 7:23 (Psalm 5:6 and often in Sept.); ἁμαρτίαν, James 2:9. σημεῖον, bring to pass, effect, John 6:30; τά ἱερά, to be busied with the holy things, i. e. to administer those things that pertain to worship, which was the business of priests and among the Jews of the Levites also, 1 Corinthians 9:13; τήν θάλασσαν literally, work the sea (mare exerceo, Justin Martyr, hist. 43, 3), i. e. to be employed on (cf. do business on, Psalm 107:23) and make one's living from it, Revelation 18:17 (so of sailors and fishermen also in native Greek writings, as Aristot. probl. 38, 2 (p. 966{b}, 26); Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 3, 46; App. Punic. 2; (Lucian, de elect. 5; Winers Grammar, 223 (209))). to cause to exist, produce: τί, so (for R G κατεργάζεται) 2 Corinthians 7:10 L T Tr WH; James 1:20 L T Tr WH.
b. to work for, earn by working, to acquire, (cf. Germ.erarbeiten): τήν βρῶσιν, John 6:27 (χρήματα, Herodotus 1, 24; τά ἐπιτήδεια, Xenophon, mem. 2, 8, 2; Demosthenes 1358, 12; ἀργύριον, Plato, Hipp., major edition, p. 282 d.; βίον, Andocides () myst. (18, 42) 144 Bekker; θησαυρούς, Theod., Proverbs 21:6; βρῶμα, Palaeph. 21, 2; others); according to many interpreters also 2 John 1:8; but see 2 a. above. (Compare: κατεργάζομαι, περιεργάζομαι, προσεργάζομαι.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
5:6; 14:2; 15:2; 107:23
Proverbs
21:6
Habakkuk
1:5
Zephaniah
2:3
Matthew
7:23; 21:28; 25:16; 25:16; 26:10; 26:10
Mark
14:6; 14:6
Luke
13:14
John
3:21; 3:21; 5:17; 6:27; 6:28; 6:30; 9:4; 9:4
Acts
10:35; 13:41; 18:3; 18:3
Romans
2:10; 4:4; 13:10
1 Corinthians
4:12; 9:6; 9:13; 15:58; 16:10
2 Corinthians
7:10
Galatians
6:10
Ephesians
4:28
Colossians
3:23
1 Thessalonians
2:9; 4:11
2 Thessalonians
3:8; 3:10; 3:11; 3:12
1 Timothy
5:5
Hebrews
11:33; 11:33
James
1:20; 2:9
2 John
1:8; 1:8; 1:8
3 John
1:5
Revelation
18:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2038 matches the Greek ἐργάζομαι (ergazomai),
which occurs 96 times in 92 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:5–Psa 92:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 - Fulfil then her sevens, and I will give to thee her also in return for thy labour, which thou labourest with me, yet seven other years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet ye shall return the rate of bricks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - Six days thou shalt labour, and shalt perform all thy work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - and to frame works, to labour in gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5 - and works in stone, and for artificers' work in wood, to work at all works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seed-time and harvest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:10 - And every man that is wise in heart among you, let him come and work all things whatsoever the Lord has commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:4 - And there came all the wise men who wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according to his own work, which they wrought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - And Moses commanded, and proclaimed in the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman any longer labour for the offerings of the sanctuary; and the people were restrained from bringing any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:1 - (LXX 36:8) And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel: and they shall be prepared [fn]to perform the works of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw nigh to the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:25 - And from fifty years old the Levite shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:51 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even every wrought article.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:13 - Six days thou shalt work, and thou shalt do all thy works;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - Every first-born that shall be born among thy kine and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord thy God; thou shalt not work with thy first-born calf, and thou shalt not shear the first-born of thy sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not [fn]borne a yoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall [fn]slay the heifer in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - And thou, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him; and thou shalt bring in bread to the son of thy lord, and he shall eat bread: and Memphibosthe the son of thy lord shall eat bread continually at my table. Now Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - And king David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Æman, and of Idithun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:26 - And over the husbandmen who tilled the ground was Esdri the son of Chelub.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - (LXX 2:9) And, behold, I have given freely to thy servants that work and cut the wood, corn for food, even twenty thousand measures of wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:6 - They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:29 - Behold, all these things the Mighty One works in a threefold manner with a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 - I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5 - (LXX 5:6) Neither shall the transgressors continue in thy sight: thou hatest, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:8 - (LXX 6:9) Depart from me, all ye that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:15 - (LXX 7:16) He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 - (LXX 13:4) Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:2 - (LXX 14:2) He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - (LXX 27:3) Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12 - (LXX 35:13) There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:1 - (LXX 43:1) For the end, a Psalm for [fn]instruction, for the sons of Core. (43:2) O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 - (LXX 52:5) Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:2 - (LXX 57:3) For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:2 - (LXX 58:3) Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - (LXX 58:6) And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:2 - (LXX 63:3) Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - (LXX 73:12) But God is our King [fn]of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - (LXX 91:8) When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity [fn]have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:9 - (LXX 91:10) [fn]For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

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