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ἐνεργέω energeō G1754

“I work, accomplish, am operative” — Dodson Greek Lexicon

Same root: Related words from the same root: 20 more words

Strong's Greek Dictionary (1890) says these words are built from one another, all going back to ἔργον ergon (G2041). Each line says which source links it. Words with a prefix are listed with their main word, not with the prefix. Related words can still differ in meaning.

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Rendered in KJV as: worketh ×11, themselves ×2, work ×2, effectual ×1, effectually ×1, mighty ×1, wrought ×1, do ×1, doth ×1, fervent ×1 (22 links)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon [G1754]

I work, am operative, am at work, am made to work, accomplish; mid: I work, display activity.

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19 verse(s)

  1. Matthew 14:2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
    energousin – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · they V-PAI-3P
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  2. Mark 6:14 And king Herod heard of him ; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
    energousin – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · they V-PAI-3P
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  3. Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
    enērgeito – imperfect (ongoing or repeated action in the past) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-IMI-3S
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  4. 1 Corinthians 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
    energōn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with) V-PAP-NSM
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  5. 1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
    energei – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-PAI-3S
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  6. 2 Corinthians 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
    energoumenēs – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular feminine (matches the word it goes with) V-PMP-GSF
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  7. 2 Corinthians 4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
    energeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-PMI-3S
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  8. Galatians 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
    energēsas – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with) V-AAP-NSM
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  9. Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
    energōn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with) V-PAP-NSM
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  10. Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
    energoumenē – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with) V-PMP-NSF
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  11. Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
    energountos – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular masculine (matches the word it goes with) V-PAP-GSM
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  12. Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places ,
    enērgēsen – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-AAI-3S
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  13. Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
    energountos – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular neuter (matches the word it goes with) V-PAP-GSN
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  14. Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
    energoumenēn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · accusative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with) V-PMP-ASF
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  15. Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
    energōn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with) V-PAP-NSM
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  16. Colossians 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
    energoumenēn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · accusative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with) V-PMP-ASF
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  17. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
    energeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-PMI-3S
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  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let , until he be taken out of the way.
    energeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-PMI-3S
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  19. James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
    energoumenē – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle (the subject acts with self-involvement) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with) V-PMP-NSF
    verse | pericope | chapter