2040. ergatés
Strong's Lexicon
ergatés: Worker, laborer

Original Word: ἐργάτης
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: ergatés
Pronunciation: er-gah'-tace
Phonetic Spelling: (er-gat'-ace)
Definition: Worker, laborer
Meaning: a field-laborer; then: a laborer, workman in general.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 2040 ergátēs (from 2038 /ergázomai, "to work") – a workman (laborer). See 2041 (ergon).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ergazomai
Definition
a workman
NASB Translation
laborer (2), laborers (6), worker (1), workers (4), workman (1), workmen (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2040: ἐργάτης

ἐργάτης, ἐργάτου, (ἐργάζομαι);

1. as in Greek writings a workman, a laborer: usually one who works for hire, Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:18; especially an agricultural laborer, Matthew 9:37; Matthew 20:1f, 8; Luke 10:2; James 5:4 (Wis. 17:16); those whose labor artificers employ (i. e. workmen in the restricted sense), Acts 19:25 (opposed to τοῖς τεχνίταις (A. V. craftsmen), Acts 19:24), cf. Bengel at the passage; those who as teachers labor to propagate and promote Christianity among men: 2 Corinthians 11:13; Philippians 3:2; 2 Timothy 2:15, cf. Matthew 9:37; Luke 10:2.

2. one who does, a worker, perpetrator: τῆς ἀδικίας, Luke 13:27 (τῆς ἀνομίας, 1 Macc. 3:6; τῶν καλῶν καί σεμνῶν, Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 27).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
laborer, workman.

From ergon; a toiler; figuratively, a teacher -- labourer, worker(-men).

see GREEK ergon

Forms and Transliterations
εργαται εργάται ἐργάται εργατας εργάτας ἐργάτας εργατην εργάτην ἐργάτην εργατης εργάτης ἐργάτης εργατων εργατών ἐργατῶν εργοδιώκται εργοδιώκταις εργοδιώκτας εργοδιωκτούντες εργοδιωκτών ergatai ergátai ergatas ergátas ergaten ergatēn ergáten ergátēn ergates ergatēs ergátes ergátēs ergaton ergatôn ergatōn ergatō̂n
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Matthew 9:37 N-NMP
GRK: οἱ δὲ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι
NAS: is plentiful, but the workers are few.
KJV: but the labourers [are] few;
INT: the however workmen [are] few

Matthew 9:38 N-AMP
GRK: ὅπως ἐκβάλῃ ἐργάτας εἰς τὸν
NAS: to send out workers into His harvest.
KJV: he will send forth labourers into
INT: that he might send out workmen into the

Matthew 10:10 N-NMS
GRK: γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης τῆς τροφῆς
NAS: a staff; for the worker is worthy
KJV: yet staves: for the workman is worthy
INT: indeed the workman of the provisions

Matthew 20:1 N-AMP
GRK: πρωὶ μισθώσασθαι ἐργάτας εἰς τὸν
NAS: to hire laborers for his vineyard.
KJV: to hire labourers into
INT: morning to hire workmen for the

Matthew 20:2 N-GMP
GRK: μετὰ τῶν ἐργατῶν ἐκ δηναρίου
NAS: When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius
KJV: with the labourers for
INT: with the workmen for a denarius

Matthew 20:8 N-AMP
GRK: Κάλεσον τοὺς ἐργάτας καὶ ἀπόδος
NAS: Call the laborers and pay
KJV: steward, Call the labourers, and give
INT: Call the workmen and pay

Luke 10:2 N-NMP
GRK: οἱ δὲ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι δεήθητε
NAS: is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
KJV: but the labourers [are] few:
INT: moreover [the] workmen [are] few pray earnestly to

Luke 10:2 N-AMP
GRK: θερισμοῦ ὅπως ἐργάτας ἐκβάλῃ εἰς
NAS: to send out laborers into His harvest.
KJV: he would send forth labourers into
INT: harvest that workmen he might send out into

Luke 10:7 N-NMS
GRK: γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ
NAS: what they give you; for the laborer is worthy
KJV: give: for the labourer is worthy
INT: indeed the workman of the wages

Luke 13:27 N-NMP
GRK: ἐμοῦ πάντες ἐργάται ἀδικίας
KJV: me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.
INT: me all [you] workers of unrighteousness

Acts 19:25 N-AMP
GRK: τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐργάτας εἶπεν Ἄνδρες
NAS: he gathered together with the workmen of similar
KJV: he called together with the workmen of
INT: such things workmen he said Men

2 Corinthians 11:13 N-NMP
GRK: τοιοῦτοι ψευδαπόστολοι ἐργάται δόλιοι μετασχηματιζόμενοι
NAS: deceitful workers, disguising
KJV: deceitful workers, transforming themselves
INT: such [are] false apostles workers deceitful disguising themselves

Philippians 3:2 N-AMP
GRK: τοὺς κακοὺς ἐργάτας βλέπετε τὴν
NAS: of the evil workers, beware
KJV: of evil workers, beware
INT: the evil workers beware of the

1 Timothy 5:18 N-NMS
GRK: Ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ
NAS: WHILE HE IS THRESHING, and The laborer is worthy
KJV: And, The labourer [is] worthy
INT: Worthy [is] the workman of the wages

2 Timothy 2:15 N-AMS
GRK: τῷ θεῷ ἐργάτην ἀνεπαίσχυντον ὀρθοτομοῦντα
NAS: to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed,
KJV: unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
INT: to God a workman not ashamed straightly cutting

James 5:4 N-GMP
GRK: μισθὸς τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων
NAS: the pay of the laborers who mowed
KJV: the hire of the labourers who
INT: wage of the workmen having harvested

Strong's Greek 2040
16 Occurrences


ἐργάται — 4 Occ.
ἐργάτας — 6 Occ.
ἐργάτην — 1 Occ.
ἐργάτης — 3 Occ.
ἐργατῶν — 2 Occ.















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