ἐργάτης
ergátēs · G2040 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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worker
(Derivative of ἐργάζομαι ‘to work,’) One who works
ExamplesMatthew 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Matthew 9:38 “Therefore, plead with the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
Matthew 10:10 or a bag for your journey, or even two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for the worker is deserving of his support.
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worker, one who does, one engaged in
(Derivative of ἐργάζομαι ‘to work,’) One who characteristically engages in a particular activity
ExamplesLuke 13:27 And yet He will say, ‘I do not know where you are from; LEAVE ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.’
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Philippians 3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;
How it’s used In 8 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀδικίαunrighteousness, wrongdoing 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- δόλιοςdeceitful 1
- κακόςevil, bad, harm 1
- ὀρθοτομέωto teach correctly 1
- ἀνεπαίσχυντοςunashamed 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- δόκιμοςconsidered good 1
- ἀμάωto mow 1
What is done to itIt is the object
8 occurrences in 6 groups
- ἐκβάλλωto cast out, to drive out 2
- λέγωto say 2
- καλέωto call, to name 1
- μισθόωto hire 1
- συναθροίζωto gather together 1
- βλέπωto see 1
What it is said to bePredicate
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἄξιοςworthy 3
- ὀλίγοςfew 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μισθόςreward, wages 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Worker, one who does, one engaged in41.21
- In 2 Corinthians 11:13, Paul warns that false apostles are “deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ,” naming those engaged in a particular practice, here a corrupt one.
- Worker42.43
- In Matthew 20:1, the kingdom of heaven is compared to a landowner “who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard,” the ordinary sense of a hired worker.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐργάτου, ὁ (ἐργάζομαι); 1. as in Greek writings a workman, a laborer: usually one who…
1. as in Greek writings a workman, a laborer: usually one who works for hire, Mt 10:10; Lk 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18; especially an agricultural laborer, Mt 9:37; Mt 20:1f, 8; Lk 10:2; Jas 5:4 (Wis. 17:16); those whose labor artificers employ (i. e. workmen in the restricted sense), Acts 19:25 (opposed to τοῖς τεχνίταις (A. V. craftsmen), Acts 19:24), cf. Bengel at the passage; those who as teachers labor to propagate and promote Christianity among men: 2 Cor 11:13; Phm 3:2; 2 Tim 2:15, cf. Mt 9:37; Lk 10:2.
2. one who does, a worker, perpetrator: τῆς ἀδικίας, Lk 13:27 (τῆς ἀνομίας, 1 Macc. 3:6; τῶν καλῶν καί σεμνῶν, Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 27).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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