ἐνέργεια
working
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (88%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1753 appears — 8 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 1:19 ἐνέργειαν n acc sg fem and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- Ephesians 3:7 ἐνέργειαν n acc sg fem of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
- Ephesians 4:16 ἐνέργειαν n acc sg fem from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:29 ἐνέργειαν n acc sg fem for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
- Colossians 2:12 ἐνεργείας n gen sg fem having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
2 Thessalonians 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“working” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ενεργεια (enérgeia). First canonically at Ephesians 1:19, it enters the text early. It turns up in 8 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Ephesians, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. From the same root come ενεργης and ενεργεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1753 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ephesians 3 verses 38%
- Colossians 2 verses 25%
- 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 25%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Working 4×, Effectual working 2×
- American Standard Version: Working 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Working 3×, Power 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Working 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1753 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1753 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1753 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1753 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- working, efficiency
Word origin
Derived from ενεργης (energḗs) (G1756) — active.
From G1756 ; efficiency (energy): - operation strong (effectual) working.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1753 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνέργειαν enérgeian | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 1:19 | 7 |
| ἐνεργείας energeías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Colossians 2:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1753, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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