ἔργον
work
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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.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2041 appears in the Book of Titus — 7 distinct verses. 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.
Titus
- Titus 1:16 ἔργοις ἔργον n dat pl neut n acc sg neut They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
- Titus 2:7 ἔργων n gen pl neut in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
- Titus 2:14 ἔργων n gen pl neut who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Titus 3:1 ἔργον n acc sg neut Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
- Titus 3:5 ἔργων n gen pl neut not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Titus 3:8 ἔργων n gen pl neut This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
- Titus 3:14 ἔργων n gen pl neut Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
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.
εργον (érgon) is a Greek noun most often rendered “work.” It first appears in Matthew 5:16. With 157 verses in 26 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It clusters with εργαζομαι, εργατης and ραδιουργημα under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2041 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 →
- 157
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 157 distinct verses.
- 26 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
- #94
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 94 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 157 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 25 verses 16%
- Revelation 19 verses 12%
- Romans 15 verses 10%
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 157 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 63 verses · 40%
- Johannine 49 verses · 31%
- Gospels 35 verses · 22%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 22 verses · 14%
- Revelation 19 verses · 12%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 9 verses · 6%
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: Works 103×, Work 47×, Deeds 16×
- American Standard Version: Works 110×, Work 40×, Deed 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Works 51×, Deeds 44×, Work 32×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Works 91×, Work 48×, Deeds 20×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2041 across 176 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G2041 across 178 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2041 across 163 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2041 across 189 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 3 senses 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.
- business, employment, that which any one is occupied
- any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind
- an act, deed, thing done: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work
Word origin
Origin: from a primary (but obsolete) ergo (to work)
From ἔργω ergō (a primary but obsolete word; to work ); toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication an act : - deed doing labour work.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2041 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔργα érga | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 5:16 | 58 |
| ἔργων érgōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 11:19 | 42 |
| ἔργον érgon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 26:10 | 38 |
| ἔργοις érgois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 11:48 | 13 |
| ἔργῳ érgō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 24:19 | 10 |
| ἔργου érgou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | John 10:33 | 8 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2041, 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.
Derived from this word
- εργαζομαι ergázomai G2038 to work
- εργατης ergátēs G2040 worker
- ραδιουργημα rhaidioúrgēma G4467 rascality
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εργον appears 420 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 384 verses in 31 books.
- 420
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 384
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:2 ἔργον
- Exodus 1:11 ἔργον
- Leviticus 7:24 ἔργον
- Numbers 3:7 ἔργον
- Deuteronomy 2:7 ἔργον
- Joshua 24:29 ἔργον
- Judges 2:7 ἔργον
- 1 Samuel 8:16 ἔργον
- 2 Samuel 23:20 ἔργον
- 1 Kings 2:35 ἔργον
- 2 Kings 12:12 ἔργον
- 1 Chronicles 9:19 ἔργον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2041) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 384. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:2 ἔργον On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 ἔργον God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 3:17 ἔργον To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 5:29 ἔργον and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 8:21 ἔργον Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 20:9 ἔργον Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
- Genesis 39:11 ἔργον It happened about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
- Genesis 40:17 ἔργον In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
- Genesis 46:33 ἔργον It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'
- Genesis 47:3 ἔργον Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."
- Exodus 1:11 ἔργον Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 1:14 ἔργον and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
- Exodus 2:23 ἔργον It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
- Exodus 5:4 ἔργον The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"
- Exodus 5:5 ἔργον Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
- Exodus 5:9 ἔργον Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
- Exodus 5:13 ἔργον The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
- Exodus 6:9 ἔργον Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Exodus 12:16 ἔργον In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exodus 18:20 ἔργον You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 20:9 ἔργον You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
- Exodus 20:10 ἔργον but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
- Exodus 23:12 ἔργον "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
- Exodus 23:16 ἔργον And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Exodus 23:24 ἔργον You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
- Exodus 24:10 ἔργον They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Exodus 26:31 ἔργον "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
- Exodus 26:36 ἔργον "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 27:4 ἔργον You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners.
- Exodus 28:6 ἔργον "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- Exodus 28:11 ἔργον With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
- Exodus 28:14 ἔργον and two chains of pure gold; you make them like cords shall, of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
- Exodus 28:15 ἔργον "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 28:22 ἔργον You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
- Exodus 28:39 ἔργον You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 30:35 ἔργον and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
- Exodus 31:3 ἔργον and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
- Exodus 31:5 ἔργον and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.
- Exodus 31:14 ἔργον You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Exodus 31:15 ἔργον Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 32:16 ἔργον The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.
- Exodus 34:10 ἔργον He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
- Exodus 35:2 ἔργον 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
- Exodus 35:21 ἔργον They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 35:24 ἔργον Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
- Exodus 35:29 ἔργον The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
- Exodus 35:32 ἔργον and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
- Exodus 35:33 ἔργον in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
- Exodus 35:35 ἔργον He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
- Exodus 36:1 ἔργον "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2041) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
