Strong's Lexicon
G2716 — κατεργάζομαι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G2716 |
|---|---|
| Word: | κατεργάζομαι |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G2596 and G2038 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 22 |
| Transliteration: | katergazomai |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | kat-er-gad'-zom-ai |
| Meaning: | 1. to work fully, i.e. accomplish 2. (by implication) to finish, fashion |
| KJV Renderings: | cause, to (deed), perform, work (out) |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κατεργάζομαι; perfect infinitive κατειργάσθαι (1Pe 4:3 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist middle κατειργασαμην, and κατηργασαμην (Rom 7:8 T Tr.; (2Co 7:11 T)); 1 aorist passive κατειργασθην, and κατηργασθην (2Co 12:12 Tdf.); see ἐργάζομαι, at the beginning; a deponent middle verb; (according to Fritzsche, Romans, i., p. 107 the κατά is either intensive (Latinperficere) or descensive (Latinperpetrare));
a. to perform, accomplish, achieve (R. V. often work): Romans 7:15, 17f, 20; τί διά τίνος (the genitive of person), Rom 15:18; ἅπαντα κατεργασάμενοι having gone through every struggle of the fight, Eph 6:13 (cf. Meyer, in the place cited); σημεῖα, passive 2Co 12:12; of disgraceful actions, equivalent to to perpetrate, Rom 1:27; Rom 2:9; 1Co 5:3; 1Pe 4:3.
b. to work out (Latinefficere), i. e. to do that from which something results; of man: τήν σωτηραν, make every effort to obtain salvation, Php 2:12; of things: bring about, result in, Rom 4:15; Rom 5:3; Rom 7:8; 2Co 7:10 (where L T Tr WH ἐργάζομαι); Jas 1:3, and R G in 20; τί τίνι, Rom 7:13; 2Co 4:17; 2Co 7:11; 2Co 9:11.
c. κατεργάζεσθαι τινα εἰς τί, to fashion, i. e. render one fit for a thing: 2Co 5:5. (Often in Greek writings from Sophocles and Herodotus down; several times in the Sept..)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
κατεργάζομαι (cause)
Romans 1:27
- KJV: And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet
- GK: ομοίως τε και οι άρρενες αφέντες την φυσικήν χρήσιν της θηλείας εξεκαύθησαν εν τη ορέξει αυτών εις αλλήλους άρσενες εν άρσεσι την ασχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι και την αντιμισθίαν ην έδει της πλάνης αυτών εν εαυτοίς απολαμβάνοντες
Romans 2:9
- KJV: Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile
- GK: θλίψις και στενοχωρία επί πάσαν ψυχήν ανθρώπου του κατεργαζομένου το κακόν Ιουδαίου τε πρώτον και Έλληνος
Romans 4:15
- KJV: Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is no transgression
- GK: ο γαρ νόμος οργήν κατεργάζεται ου γαρ ουκ έστι νόμος ουδέ παράβασις
Romans 5:3
- KJV: And not only but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience
- GK: ου μόνον δε αλλά και καυχώμεθα εν ταις θλίψεσιν ειδότες ότι η θλίψις υπομονήν κατεργάζεται
Romans 7:8
- KJV: But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence For without the law sin dead
- GK: αφορμήν δε λαβούσα η αμαρτία διά της εντολής κατειργάσατο εν εμοί πάσαν επιθυμίαν χωρίς γαρ νόμου αμαρτία νεκρά
Romans 7:13
- KJV: Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful
- GK: το ούν αγαθόν εμοί γέγονε θάνατος μη γένοιτο αλλά η αμαρτία ίνα φανή αμαρτία διά του αγαθού μοι κατεργαζομένη θάνατον ίνα γένηται καθ΄ υπερβολήν αμαρτωλός η αμαρτία διά της εντολής
Romans 7:15
- KJV: For that which I do I allow not for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I
- GK: ο γαρ κατεργάζομαι ου γινώσκω ου γαρ ο θέλω τούτο πράσσω αλλ΄ ο μισώ τούτο ποιώ
Romans 7:17
- KJV: Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me
- GK: νυνί δε ουκέτι εγώ κατεργάζομαι αυτό αλλ΄ οικούσα εν εμοί αμαρτία
Romans 7:18
- KJV: For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but to perform that which is good I find not
- GK: οίδα γαρ ότι ουκ οικεί εν εμοί τουτ΄ εν τη σαρκί μου αγαθόν το γαρ θέλειν παράκειταί μοι το δε κατεργάζεσθαι το καλόν ουχ ευρίσκω
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