Greek noun (feminine) · G2039
ἐργασία
ergasiaer-gas-ee'-ah
work, business; working, performance
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ergasía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2039is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2039
occupation; by implication, profit, pains
The King James renders it: craft, diligence, gain, work.
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
ergasia is rendered "work, business; working, performance". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "work, business".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 12:58Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
Luke 12:58ἐργασίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: work, business, and working, performance.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| work, businessAct.16:16 | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 12:58Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate… |
| working, performanceEph.4:19.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereEphesians 4:19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice… |
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- ἐργασίαν4
- ἐργασίας2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular4N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
Luke
one use
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
- ἐργασίανergasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: earnestness
Acts
four uses
One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.
- ἐργασίανergasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gain
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
- ἐργασίαςergasiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: profit
It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.
- ἐργασίανergasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: business
Demetrius assembled the craftsmen, along with the workmen in related trades. “Men,” he said, “you know that this business is our source of prosperity.
- ἐργασίαςergasiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: business
Ephesians
one use
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- ἐργασίανergasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: working
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.