Quick Definition
γεωργέω v. I work the soil, cultivate the earth
Strong's Definition
from 1092; to till (the soil)
KJV Usage: dress
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | γῆ + ἐργάζομαι
43.1 · Agriculture
to cultivate land, to farm, to garden to engage in agriculture or gardening
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
γεωργέω, -ὦ : [pres. pass. yewpyoduat]; (γεωργός, 4. V-) ; to practise agriculture, to till the ground: τὴν γῆν (Plat. Theag. p. 121 b.; Eryx. p. 392 d.; [al.]; 1 Esdr. iv. 6; 1 Mace. xiv. 8); Pass.: Heb. vi. 7.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
γεωργέω geōrgeō 1x
to cultivate, till the earth, Heb. 6:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
γεωργέω, -ῶ
(< γεωργός), [in LXX: I Ch 27:26 (מְלֶאכֶת הַשָּׂדֶה עָשָׂה), I Es 4:6, I Mac 14:8*;]
to till the ground: pass., He 6:7.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
γεωργέω. Agriculture being the principal industry in Egypt, this word and its cognates are very common in the papyri with reference to the cultivation both of private allotments and of the crown lands, for which rent was paid in kind. A good example of the former class is afforded by the letter in which a father remonstrates with a dilatory son for his neglect of their lot of land—to κτῆμα ἀγεώργητόν ἐστιν" οὐδεὶς τῶν γεωργῶν ἠθέλησεν γεωργεῖν αὐτό, ‘‘the whole land is untilled: no tenant was willing to work it” (BGU 11. 5300 5. (i/a.p.) (= Selections, p. 61). For the latter we may cite P Lond 256 γεέείο “1: (A.p. 11-5) (=II. p. 96), an order to deliyer sced-corn δημοσίοις γεωργοῖς εἰς ἣν γεωργοῦσι βασιλικὴν] καὶ ἱερὰν καὶ ἑτέραν γῆν, and the interesting P Oxy VI. 899% (A.D. 200) in which a woman claims on the ground of her sex to be released from the cultivation of various plots of Crown land, which, she states, as long as she had power she cultivated—és ὅσον μὲν οὖν δύναμίς μοι ὑπῆρχεν ταύτας ἐγεώργουν. If an instance of the passive is wanted (for Heb 6%), we may cite P Giss T. 415 (a.p. 118)—Hadrian has appointed (στήσαντος) τὴ[ν] βασιλ(ικὴν) γῆν καὶ δημοσίαν Kal οὐσιακὴν γῆν Kal[T]’ ἀξίαν ἑκάστης καὶ οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ παλαιοῦ πίροϊστάγματος γεωργεῖσθαι, Sy// ο20 5 (B.C. 139?) κατὰ χώρας γεγεωργημένης τε καὶ γεωργηθησομένης, etc.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
γεωργέω (geōrgeō) — to farm. γεωργ-έω, to be a husbandman, farmer, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γεωργεῖς ἐκ τούτων you have become a landed proprietor by these means (i. e. the fruits of treason), [Refs 4th c.BC+] of pastoral nomads, [Refs 4th c.BC+] —middle, οἱ γεωργούμενοι [Refs]
II. with accusative, till, plough, cultivate, πολλήν (i.e. γῆν) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἄλλας [νήσους] [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of land, [Refs]; χώρας γεγεωργημένης καὶ γεωργηθησομένης [Refs]; τὰ γεωργούμενα φυτά [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. generally, cultivate, ἐλαίαν [Refs], produce it, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.3. metaphorically, work at a thing, practise or exploit it, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; cultivate, ψυχὰς δόγμασι [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.4. of a river, fertilize, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]