Quick Definition
ἐργάζομαι v. I word, trade, do
Strong's Definition
middle voice from 2041; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.
KJV Usage: commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ειρ-, ἠρ- · pf. εἴργασμαι | ἀγαθοεργέω · ἀμπελουργός · ἀργέω · ἀργός · γεωργέω · γεώργιον · γεωργός · δημιουργός · ἐνέργεια · ἐνεργέω · ἐνέργημα · ἐνεργής · ἐργασία · ἐργάτης · ἔργον · εὐεργεσία · εὐεργετέω · εὐεργέτης · ἱερουργέω · κακοῦργος · καταργέω · κατεργάζομαι · λειτουργέω · λειτουργία · λειτουργικός · λειτουργός · οἰκουργός · πανουργία · πανοῦργος · περιεργάζομαι · περίεργος · προσεργάζομαι · ῥᾳδιούργημα · ῥᾳδιουργία · συνεργέω · συνεργός · συνυπουργέω
42.41 · Perform, Do · Work, Toil
to work, to labor to engage in an activity involving considerable expenditure of effort
MAT 21:28 · LUK 13:14 · JHN 5:17 · JHN 5:17 · JHN 6:27 · JHN 9:4 · ROM 4:4 · ROM 4:5 · 1CO 4:12 · 1CO 9:6 · 1CO 16:10 · EPH 4:28 · COL 3:23 · 1TH 2:9 · 1TH 4:11 · 2TH 3:8 · 2TH 3:10 · 2TH 3:11 · 2TH 3:12 · HEB 11:33 · 2JN 1:8
57.198 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Earn, Gain, Do Business
to do business, to trade, work, business to be involved in business, with focus upon the work which is involved
90.47 · Case · Agent of a Numerable Event
to do, to make, to perform a marker of an agent relation with numerable events, with the probable implication of comprehensiveness
MAT 7:23 · MAT 26:10 · MRK 14:6 · JHN 3:21 · JHN 6:28 · JHN 6:30 · JHN 9:4 · ACT 10:35 · ACT 13:41 · ROM 2:10 · ROM 13:10 · 1CO 9:13 · JAS 2:9 · 3JN 1:5
1 Any meaning involving ‘to cause to be’ implies some change in state, and therefore one could classify these meanings under Subdomain B Change of State in Domain 13 Be, Become, Exist, Happen. However, the focus seems to be primarily upon the changed state rather than upon the process of moving from one state to another. The fact that a change of state has taken place seems to be semantically incidental.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐργάζομαι; depon. mid.; impf. εἰργαζόμην (ἠργαζόμην, Acts xviii. 3 LT Tr WH; [so elsewh. at times; this var. in augm. is found in the aor. also]; cf. W. § 12, 8; B. 33 (29 sq.); Steph. Thesaur. iii. 1970 e.; [Curtius, Das Verbum, i. 124; Cramer, Anecd. 4,412; Veitch s. v.]); 1 aor. εἰργασάμην (npyac. Mt. xxv. 16; [xxvi. 10]; Mk. Arey: ἑπτά, xiv. 6, in T WH, [add, 2 Jn. 8 WH and Hebr. xi. 33 T Tr WH; cf. reff. as above]); pf. εἴργασμαι, in a pass. sense [cf. W. § 38, 7e.], Jn. iii. 21, as often in Grk. writ. [ef. Veitch 5. v.]; (ἔργον) ; Sept. for oy3, ἽΞ»» sometimes for TW} ; 1. absol. a. to work, labor, do work: it is opp. to inactivity or idleness, Lk. xiii. 14; Jn. v.17; ix.4; 2 Th. iii. 10; with addition of ταῖς χερσί, 1 Co. iv. 12; 1 Th. iv. 11; with acc. of time: νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, 2 Th. iii. 8 [but Ltxt.T Tr WH the gen., as in 1 Th. ii. 9 (see ἡμέρα, 1 a.); cf. W. § 30, 11 and Ellice. on 1 Tim. v. 5]; with the predominant idea of working for pay, Mt. xxi. 28 (ἐν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι); Acts xvili. 3; 1 Co. ix. 6; 2 Th. iii. 12; ace. to the conception characteristic of Paul, ὁ ἐργαζόμενος he that does works conformed to the law (Germ. der Werkthdtige) : Ro. iv.4sq. b. to trade, to make gains by trading, (cf. our “do business”): ἔν tu, with a thing, Mt. xxv. 16 (often so by Dem.). 2. trans. a. (to work i. e.) to do, work out: ri, Col. iii. 23; 2 Jn. 8 (with which [ace. to reading of L T Tr txt.] ef. 1 Co. xv. 58 end); μηδέν, 2 Th. iii. 11; ἔργον, Acts xiii. 41 (Oyd bya, Hab. i. 5); ἔργον καλὸν εἴς twa, Mt. xxvi. 10; ἔν τινι (dat. of pers. [ef. W. 218 (205)]), Mk. xiv. 6 [Ree. εἰς ἐμέ]; ἔργα, wrought, pass., Jn. iii. 21; τὰ ἔργα τοῦ θεοῦ, what God wishes to be done, Jn. vi. 28; ix. 4; τοῦ κυρίου, to give one’s strength to the work which the Lord wishes to have done, 1 Co. xvi. 10; τὸ ἀγαθόν, [Ro. ii. 10]; Eph. iv. 28; πρός τινα, Gal. vi. 10; κακόν τινί τι, Ro. xiii. 10 (τινά τι is more com. in Grk. writ. [Kiihner § 411, 5]); τί εἴς twa, ὃ Jn. 5. with ace. of virtues or vices, (10 work i. e.) to exercise, perform, commit: δικαιοσύνην, Acts x. 35; Heb. xi. 33, (Ps. xiv. (xv.) 2; Zeph. ii. 3); τὴν dvoμίαν, Mt. vii. 23 (Ps. v. 6 and often in Sept.) ; ἁμαρτίαν, Jas. ii. 9. σημεῖον, bring to pass, effect, Jn. vi. 30; τὰ ἱερά, to be busied with the holy things i. 6. to administer those things that pertain to worship, which was the business of priests and among the Jews of the Levites also, 1 Co. ix. 13; τὴν θάλασσαν lit. work the sea (mare exerceo, Justin. hist. 43, 3) i. e. to be employed on [ef. “ do business on,” Ps. evii. 23] and make one’s living from it, Rev. xviii. 17 (so of sailors and fishermen also in native Grk. writ., as Aristot. probl. 38, 2 [p. 966°, 26]; Dion. Hal. antt. 3,46; App. Punic. 2; [Lcian. de elect. 5; W. 223 (209)]). to cause to exist, produce: τί, so (for RG xaτεργάζεται) 2 Co. vii. 10 LT Tr WH; Jas. i. 20 LT Tr WH. b. to work for, earn by working, to acquire, (cf. Germ. erarbeiten) : τὴν βρῶσιν, Jn. vi. 27 (χρήματα, 1141. 1, 24; τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, Xen. mem. 2, 8, 2; Dem. 1358, 12: ἀργύριον, Plato, Hipp. maj. p. 282 d.; βίον, Andoc. myst. [18, 42] 144 Bekk.; θησαυρούς, Theodot. Prov. xxi. 6; βρῶμα, Palaeph. 21, 2; al.); ace. to many interpreters also 2 Jn. 8; but see 2 ἃ. above. [Comp.: κατ-, mept-, mpoo-epyatouat. |
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐργάζομαι ergazomai 41x
intrans. to work, labor, Mt. 21:28; Lk. 13:14; to trade, traffic, do business, Mt. 25:16; Rev. 18:17; to act, exert one’s power, be active, Jn. 5:17; trans. to do, perform, commit, Mt. 26:10; Jn. 6:28; to be engaged in, occupied upon, 1 Cor. 9:13; Rev. 18:17; to acquire, gain by one’s labor, Jn. 6:27
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐργάζομαι
(< ἔργον), [in LXX for עָבַד, פָּעַל, עָשָׂה, etc. ;]
intrans.,
to work, labour: Mt 21:28, Lk 13:14, Jo 5:17 9:4b, Ac 18:3, I Co 9:6, II Th 3:10-12; τ. χερσίν, I Co 4:12, I Th 4:11; νυκτὸς κ. ἡαέρας, I Th 2:9, II Th 3:8; of working for pay, Mt 21:28; for reward, Ro 4:4, 5;
to work at a trade or business, to trade: seq. ἐν (Dem.), Mt 25:16.
Trans.,
to work, work out, do, produce, perform: c. acc, II Co 7:10, Col 3:23, II Th 3:11, Ja 1:20, II Jo 8, seq. εἰς, III Jo 5; ἔργον, Ac 13:41 (LXX); id. seq. εἰς, Mt 26:10; ἐν, Mk 14:6; ἔργα, Jo 3:21; τὰ ἔ. τ. θεοῦ, Jo 6:28 9:4; τὸ ἔ. κυρίου, I Co 16:10; τ. ἀγαθόν, Ro 2:10, Eph 4:28 (v. AR, Eph.) 190); id. seq. πρός, Ga 6:10; κακόν, seq. dat. pers. (more freq. dupl. acc, in cl.), Ro 13:10; δικαιοσύνην, Ac 10:35, He 11:33; ἀνομίαν, Mt 7:23; ἁμαρτίαν, Ja 2:9; σημεῖον, Jo 6:30; τ. ἱερά, I Co 9:13; τ. θάλασσαν (work the sea, i.e. make one's living from it), Re 18:17;
to work for, earn by working (cl.): Jo 6:27 (cf. κατ-, περι-, προσ-εργάζομαι; Cremer, 258; on the force of the aorist of this verb, v. M, Pr., 116).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐργάζομαι. P Petr II. 4(8)8 (B.c. 255-4) οὐδενὶ τρόπωι ἐργάζονται, P Tebt IE, 3844 (contract of apprenticeship—a.D. 10) παρε[ξόμεθά σοι τὸν] ἀδελφὸν. . .. ἐργαζόμενον κατὰ τὴν] γερδίιακὴν τέχνην, “we will produce our brother to work at the weaver’s trade” (Edd.), P Ryl II. 233? (ii/a.p.) ἡ ἔξοδος τῶν ἐργαζομένων πάντων, ‘the exit for all the | work-folk” (Edd.), P Lond 117779 (A.D. 113) (=TIII. p. 183) τῶν διὰ νυκτὸς ἐργασαμένων, P Meyer 207" (ist half iii/A.D.) ἐργαζέσθω Λουκιᾶς καὶ ζώτω ἐκ Tod μισθάρον (4—(ov) αὐτῆς (cf. 2 Th 315. Ἐἴργασται, ‘“‘ work has been done,” is very common in certificates granted for work done on embankments, as P Ryl II. 210% (A.D. 131) εἴργίασται) ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων, so 70. 211°, 212° (both ii/A.p.), and P Fay 79° (A.D. 197). With the use of the verb = “‘perform” sacred rites, as in 1 Cor 93%, cf. the related ὀργιάζω = ‘‘celebrate mysteries” : see Boisacq Dzct. Etym. p. 272. For the fut. ἐργῶμαι, which is found in the LXX, but not in the NT, cf. Sy? 540!° (Eleusis—B.c. 175-171) ἐργᾶται δὲ συνεχῶς μετὰ TO THY δόσιν λαβεῖν. The compound amepyG{opat occurs in P Lille I. 167 (iii/B.c.) ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἀπεργάΐζονται ot λαοὶ τὸ κέρμα τοῦτο εἰς ἄριστον, ““ puisque précisément les indigenes acquittent (?) au mieux cette petite ἴαχε (Ed.), and P Oxy XII. 1409! (A.D. 278) ταῦτα ἀπεργάζεσθαι ἤδη μετὰ πάσης προθυμίας, “to build these up now with all zeal’’; and the compound συνεργάζομαι in BGU II. 530% (i/a.p.) ὃ κοινωνὸς ἡμῶν οὐ συνηργάσατο. On the augment see Moulton CR xv. p. 35f., and on the constative ἐργάσασθαι in Mt 2515, 3 [πη 5, and Heb 11°, see Proleg. p. 116.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐργάζομαι (ergazomai) — to work. ἐργάζομαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+], etc., Cretan dialect ϝεργάδδομαι [Refs]: future -άσομαι [Refs 6th c.BC+], etc., Doric dialect [LXX+3rd c.BC+]: aorist εἰργασάμην, Ionic dialect [Refs 6th c.BC+]: perfect εἴργασμαι, Ionic dialect[Refs 5th c.BC+] —These tenses are used both in middle and passive significations: for other passive tenses, see below[Refs 4th c.BC+]; but this rule is often broken in later Papyrus, Inscrr., and codices:—work, labour, especially of husbandry, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of quarrymen, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις in the mines, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of birds working to get food, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of bees, [Refs]; of Hephaestus' self-acting bellows, [Refs 8th c.BC+] the matter works, i.e. goes on, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ἀὴρ ἐργάζεται produces an effect [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐργάσεται τὸ θερμόν [Refs]
II. transitive, work at, make, ἔργα κλυτά, of Athena, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰκόνας, ἀνδριάντας, καλὰ ἔργα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; make so and so, [Refs 2nd c.AD+].
II.2. do, perform, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔργον ἐπ᾽ ἔργῳ ἐ., of husbandmen, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐ. πρᾶγμα, opposed to βουλεύειν, [NT+5th c.BC+]: with double accusative, do something to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; chiefly in bad sense, do one ill, do one a shrewd turn, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; less frequently, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; seldom [Refs 6th c.BC+].
II.2. b perform rites, [Refs].
II.2. c in Law, ζημίαν ἐ. do damage, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3. work a material, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐ. γῆν till the land, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; [ἀργυρῖτιν] Docum. cited in [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.4. earn by working, [Refs 8th c.BC+].
II.5. work at, practise, μουσικήν, τέχνας, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἀρετὴν καὶ σωφροσύνην variant in [NT+5th c.BC+]
II.6. absolutely, work at a trade or business, traffic, trade, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (also οἱ τὴν τετράγωνον (i.e. ἀγοράν) ἐργαζόμενοι those who trade in the square, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τούτοις..ναυτικοῖς ἐ. trade with this money on bottomry, [Refs]; ταῦτα ἐ. thus he trades, [Refs]; οἱ ἐν Δήλῳ ἐ., = Latin qui Deli negotiantur, [Refs] Latin quaestum corpore facere, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας Alexis Sam. cited in [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.7. cause, [Refs 5th c.BC+].
III. passive, rarely in present and imperfect, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: future [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect εἴργασμαι (see. below): aorist 1 [Refs 6th c.BC+]
III.1. to be made or built, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λίθοι εἰργ. wrought stones, [Refs 6th c.BC+].
III.2. to be done, [Refs 5th c.BC+]