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ἐνέργεια

enérgeia · G1753 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to function, to work, to be at work, practice

    To be engaged in some activity or function, with possible focus upon the energy or force involved

    Examples

    Ephesians 1:19 and what is the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might

    Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

    Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

8 occurrences in 8 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To function, to work, to be at work, practice42.3
This noun denotes power in action or effective operation, used of Paul's prayer that believers know the surpassing greatness of God's power toward them, in accordance with the working of His mighty strength — "These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might" (Ephesians 1:19), and of Christ's own power at work within Paul's ministry, "according to the working of His power" (Ephesians 3:7), and of the body's growth through the working of each individual part, "according to the proper working of each individual part" (Ephesians 4:16), and of the power by which Christ will transform believers' bodies, "by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself" (Philippians 3:21), and of God's power working mightily within Paul's own labor, "striving according to His power which works mightily within me" (Colossians 1:29).
Word family 25 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἔργον érgon · G2041 · act, deed, work · 169×ἐργάζομαι ergázomai · G2038 · to work, to labor, to do business · 41×καταργέω katargéō · G2673 · to cause to come to an end, to cause to become nothing, to put an end to · 27×κατεργάζομαι katergázomai · G2716 · to accomplish, to perform successfully, to do thoroughly · 22×ἐνεργέω energéō · G1754 · to function, to work, to be at work · 21×ἐργάτης ergátēs · G2040 · worker, one who does, one engaged in · 16×συνεργός synergós · G4904 · fellow worker · 12×ἀργός argós · G692 · idle, not working, lazy · 8×ἐνέργειαenérgeia · G1753ἐργασία ergasía · G2039 · practice, behavior, trade · 6×πανουργία panourgía · G3834 · craftiness, treachery · 5×συνεργέω synergéō · G4903 · to work together with, to be active together with · 5×ἐνεργής energḗs · G1756 · effective, able to bring about · 3×ἐνέργημα enérgēma · G1755 · act, deed · 2×εὐεργεσία euergesía · G2108 · good deed · 2×περίεργος períergos · G4021 · (being a) busybody, meddling, magic · 2×ἀργέω argéō · G691 · to be idle, to not be in force, to not be operative · 1×εὐεργετέω euergetéō · G2109 · to do good · 1×εὐεργέτης euergétēs · G2110 · helper of the people, benefactor · 1×πανοῦργος panoûrgos · G3835 · scoundrel, crafty fellow · 1×περιεργάζομαι periergázomai · G4020 · to be a busybody · 1×προσεργάζομαι prosergázomai · G4333 · to make more, to earn in addition · 1×ῥᾳδιούργημα rhaidioúrgēma · G4467 · wrongdoing, unscrupulousness · 1×ῥᾳδιουργία rhaidiourgía · G4468 · wrongdoing, unscrupulousness · 1×συνυπουργέω synypourgéō · G4943 · to join in helping · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐνεργείας, ἡ (ἐνεργής, which see), working, efficiency; in the N. T. used only of…
ἐνεργείας, ἡ (ἐνεργής, which see), working, efficiency; in the N. T. used only of superhuman power, whether of God or of the devil; of God: Eph 3:7; Col 2:12; ἡ ἐνέργεια ἡ ἐνεργουμένη, Col 1:29; with a relative intervening, ἐνεργεῖν ἐνέργειαν, Eph 1:19f; κατ' ἐνέργειαν ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνός ἑκάστου μέρους, according to the working which agrees with the measure of (is commensurate with) every single part, Eph 4:16; κατά τήν ἐνέργειαν τοῦ δύνασθαι αὐτόν κτλ. according to the efficiency by which he is able to subject all things to himself, Phm 3:21. ἐνέργεια τοῦ Σατανᾶ, 2 Thess 2:9; πλάνης, the power with which error works, 2 Thess 2:11. (Wis. 7:17, etc.; 2 Macc. 3:29; τῆς προνοίας, 3Macc. 4:21; not found in the Sept.; in the classics first in Aristotle; (on ἐνέργεια, ἐνεργεῖν, of diabolic influences, cf. Müller on the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 6 [ET]).) (Synonym: see δύναμις, at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Function8 occurrences

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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