geōrgos · farmer, vinedresser

What it means

geōrgos (γεωργός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “farmer, vinedresser”.

Farmer, one who works the land.

How to say it

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

1. One who works the land or tends a vineyard.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tenant farmers ×8
• tenants ×8
• farmer ×2
• vinedresser ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×5
• Luke×5
• John×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• James×1

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Matthew 21:34

  And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to receive his fruit.

• Matthew 21:35

  And the tenant farmers took his slaves and one they beat, another they killed, another they stoned.

• Matthew 21:38

  But the tenant farmers, seeing the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’

• Matthew 21:40

  So when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?”

• Matthew 21:41

  They say to him, “He will destroy those wretches wretchedly, and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

• Mark 12:1

  And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Mark 12:2

  And at the season he sent a slave to the tenants, so that he might receive from the tenants some of the fruit of the vineyard.

• Mark 12:7

  But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

• Mark 12:9

  What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.

• Luke 20:9

  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad for a long time.

• Luke 20:10

  And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

• Luke 20:14

  But when the tenants saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours.’

• Luke 20:16

  He will come and destroy these tenants and give the vineyard to others.” And when they heard this, they said, “By no means!”

• John 15:1

  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

• 2 Timothy 2:6

  The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to receive a share of the crops.

• James 5:7

  Be patient, then, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Look, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain.

And 2 more times.