ἐργασία
ergasia · work, business
Greek word · Strong’s number G2039 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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ergasia (ἐργασία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “work, business”.
Work, effort; business, the profit a trade brings; "make an effort".
How to say it
er·ga·si·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An occupation and what it yields; also diligence in doing something.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- business ×2
- profit ×2
- effort ×1
- practice ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 12:58
For as you are going with your opponent before a ruler, on the way make an effort to be released from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.
- Acts 16:16
And it happened as we were going to the place of prayer that a certain slave girl who had a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
- Acts 16:19
But when her masters saw that the hope of their profit had gone out, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.
- Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no small business to the craftsmen.
- Acts 19:25
He gathered these together with the workers in similar trades and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our prosperity.
- Ephesians 4:19
who, having become callous, gave over themselves to debauchery for the practice of every impurity with greed.