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Greek adjective · G1756

ἐνεργής

energesen-er-gace'

effective

3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: energḗs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1756is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1756

active, operative

The King James renders it: effectual, powerful.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

energes is rendered "effective". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • One of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 16:9because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

The first use

because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

1 Corinthians 16:9ἐνεργὴς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's three uses is in 1 Corinthians.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • active1
  • effective1
  • productive1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἐνεργέωenergeobe activeUses21
ἐνέργειαenergeiaactive energyUses8
ἐνέργημαenergemaworkingUses2

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐνεργὴς3

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2A-NSF
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM

1 Corinthians

one use
  • because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

    1 Corinthians 16:9

    • ἐνεργὴςenergesadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: productive

Philemon

one use
  • I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.

    Philemon 1:6

    • ἐνεργὴςenergesadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: effective

Hebrews

one use
  • For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

    Hebrews 4:12

    • ἐνεργὴςenergesadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: active

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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