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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.

All 21 words of this family (8 not shown here) →

Rendered in WEB as: works ×8, worked ×3, working ×2, work ×2, he worked ×1, effective ×1, are at work ×1 (18 links)

Each verse shows the form used there and its grammar in plain English. What do these terms mean?

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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 to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work 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 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work 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 sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to 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 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God who works all things 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 the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. verse | pericope | chapter
  6. 2 Corinthians 1:6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. verse | pericope | chapter
  7. 2 Corinthians 4:12 So then death works 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 who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with 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 who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? verse | pericope | chapter
  10. Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through 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 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will, verse | pericope | chapter
  12. Ephesians 1:20 which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his 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
    verse | pericope | chapter
  13. Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works 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 to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works 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 who works in you both to will and to work for 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
    verse | pericope | chapter
  16. Colossians 1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works 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
    verse | pericope | chapter
  17. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who 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
    verse | pericope | chapter
  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is 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
    verse | pericope | chapter
  19. James 5:16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
    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