γεωργέω
geōrgéō · G1090 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cultivate land, to farm, to garden
To engage in agriculture or gardening
ExamplesHebrews 6:7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough+ ὅςwho, which, that 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καίand 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- φυτεύω phyteúō · G5452 · to plant
- Greek verb for planting, a specific agricultural activity closely related to the broader concept of tilling/cultivating land
In the other Testament 2 words
- עָבַד ʻâbad · H5647 · to serve (someone), to make (someone) serve (someone else)
- Hebrew verb for working/tilling land, the standard translation equivalent for agricultural cultivation in the LXX (e.g., Gen 2:5, 2:15, 3:23)
- חָרַשׁ chârash · H2790 · to engrave (on stone), to carve (wood), to plow
- Hebrew verb specifically for plowing/tilling soil, a narrower agricultural term that overlaps semantically with γεωργέω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To cultivate land, to farm, to garden43.1
- Used of agricultural labor on land, as of ground that drinks the rain and is tilled to produce useful vegetation in Hebrews 6:7.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γεωργῷ: (present passive γεωργοῦμαι); (γεωργός, which see); to practise agriculture, to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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