κατεργάζομαι
to accomplish
‘to accomplish’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 13 distinct
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 6 times (27%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (14%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 3 times (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (5%)
+5 more forms (5 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 22 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2716 appears — 22 distinct verses across 7 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.
Romans 11 verses
- Romans 1:27 κατεργαζόμενοι pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
- Romans 2:9 κατεργαζομένου pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen sg masc oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.
- Romans 4:15 κατεργάζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Romans 5:3 κατεργάζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
- Romans 7:8 κατηργάσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Romans 7:13 κατεργαζομένη pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg fem Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
- Romans 7:15 κατεργάζομαι pres mid/pass.dep ind 1sg For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
- Romans 7:17 κατεργάζομαι pres mid/pass.dep ind 1sg So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
- Romans 7:18 κατεργάζεσθαι pres mid/pass.dep inf For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
- Romans 7:20 κατεργάζομαι pres mid/pass.dep ind 1sg But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
- Romans 15:18 κατειργάσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 6 verses
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 κατεργάζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- 2 Corinthians 5:5 κατεργασάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 7:10 κατεργάζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
- 2 Corinthians 7:11 κατηργάσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- 2 Corinthians 9:11 κατεργάζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
- 2 Corinthians 12:12 κατειργάσθη aor pass ind 3sg Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
James 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
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.
κατεργαζομαι — transliterated katergázomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to accomplish.” More than half of its appearances fall in Romans. The Greek New Testament uses it across 22 verses — uncommon. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Its English rendering has broadened — “worketh” classically, “produces” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 22-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2716 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 →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #586
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 586 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 11 verses 50%
- 2 Corinthians 6 verses 27%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 5%
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 22 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 20 verses · 91%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 9%
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: Worketh 7×, Wrought 3×, Do 2×
- American Standard Version: Worketh 9×, Wrought 5×, Do 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Do 3×, Brings 2×, Produced 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Produces 5×, Produced 3×, Having done 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2716 across 26 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2716 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G2716 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 G2716 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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.
- to perform, accomplish, achieve
- to work out i.e. to do that from which something results
- to fashion i.e. render one fit for a thing
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms G2716 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2716, 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
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κατεργαζομαι appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 15:17 καταἐργάζομαι
- Numbers 6:3 καταἐργάζομαι
- Deuteronomy 28:39 καταἐργάζομαι
- 1 Kings 6:36 καταἐργάζομαι
- Psalms 67:29 καταἐργάζομαι
- Ezekiel 34:4 καταἐργάζομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2716) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 15:17 καταἐργάζομαι You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, The place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; The sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
- Exodus 35:33 καταἐργάζομαι in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
- Exodus 39:1 καταἐργάζομαι Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 6:3 καταἐργάζομαι he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 καταἐργάζομαι You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.
- 1 Kings 6:36 καταἐργάζομαι He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- Psalms 67:29 καταἐργάζομαι
- Ezekiel 34:4 καταἐργάζομαι You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.
- Ezekiel 36:9 καταἐργάζομαι For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2716) 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.
