κατεργάζομαι katergazomai G2716
“I work out, produce, accomplish” — 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.
- ἔργον ergon G2041 “work, labor, action, deed” head of this family (per Strong's: a primary word) in 161 verses
- ἐργάζομαι ergazomai G2038 “I word, trade, do” built from ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 39 verses
- καταργέω katargeō G2673 “I bring to naught, sever, abolish” built from κατά G2596 + ἀργέω G0691 (per Strong's) in 26 verses
- ἐνεργέω energeō G1754 “I work, accomplish, am operative” built from ἐνεργής, ἐναργής G1756 (per Strong's) in 19 verses
- ἐργάτης ergatēs G2040 “a field-laborer, workman” built from ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 15 verses
- συνεργός sunergos G4904 “a fellow worker” built from σύν G4862 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 13 verses
- ἐνέργεια energeia G1753 “working, activity” built from ἐνεργής, ἐναργής G1756 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 8 verses
- ἀργός argos G0692 “idle, lazy, thoughtless” built from ἀ- G0001 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 7 verses
- ἐργασία ergasia G2039 “working, activity, trade, performance” built from ἐργάτης G2040 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 6 verses
- συνεργέω sunergeō G4903 “I work together” built from συνεργός G4904 (per Strong's) in 5 verses
- ἐνεργής, ἐναργής energēs, enargēs G1756 “effective” built from ἐν G1722 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 3 verses
- ἐνέργημα energēma G1755 “a working, an effect” built from ἐνεργέω G1754 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 2 verses
Built from κατά kata G2596 + ἐργάζομαι ergazomai G2038 (per Strong's). The first part is a prefix (a preposition or a short prefix such as “un-”), so the word is listed with the family of the last part only, never with the prefix.
Rendered in KJV as: worketh ×6, wrought ×6, do ×3, done ×2, unseemly ×1, doeth ×1, working ×1, perform ×1, hath ×1, deed ×1, causeth ×1, out ×1, having ×1, work ×1 (27 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 [G2716]
I effect by labor, achieve, work out, bring about.
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22 verse(s)
- Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.katergazomenoi – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative plural masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PNP-NPM - Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;katergazomenou – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PNP-GSM - Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - Romans 5:3 And not only so , but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.kateirgasato – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-ADI-3S - Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.katergazomenē – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PNP-NSF - Romans 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.katergazomai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · Iverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-1S - Romans 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.katergazomai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · Iverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-1S - Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.katergazesthai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · infinitive ('to …' form)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PNN - Romans 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.katergazomai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · Iverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-1S - Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,kateirgasato – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-ADI-3S - 1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,katergasamenon – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · accusative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-ADP-ASM - 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - 2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.katergasamenos – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-ADP-NSM - 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - 2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.kateirgasato – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-ADI-3S - 2 Corinthians 9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - 2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.kateirgasthē – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-API-3S - Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.katergasamenoi – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · middle form (translated as active) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative plural masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-ADP-NPM - Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.katergazesthe – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · imperative (a command or request) · you (plural)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PNM-2P - James 1:3 Knowing this , that the trying of your faith worketh patience.katergazetai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PNI-3S - 1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:kateirgasthai – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · middle/passive form (translated as active) · infinitive ('to …' form)verse | pericope | chapter
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