ἐργάζομαι
(< ἔργον), [in LXX for עָבַד, פָּעַל, עָשָׂה, etc.;]
1. intrans.,
(a) to work, labour: Mt 21:28, Lk 13:14, Jo 5:179:4b, Ac 18:3, I Co 9:6, II Th 3:10-12; τ. χερσίν, I Co 4:12, I Th 4:11; νυκτὸς κ. ἡαέρας, I Th 2:9, II Th 3:8; of working for pay, Mt 21:28; for reward, Ro 4:4, 5;
(b) to work at a trade or business, to trade: seq. ἐν (Dem.), Mt 25:16.
2. Trans.,
(a) to work, work out, do, produce, perform: c. acc, II Co 7:10, Col 3:23, II Th 3:11, Ja 1:20, II Jo 8, seq. εἰς, III Jo 5; ἔργον, Ac 13:41(LXX); id. seq. εἰς, Mt 26:10; ἐν, Mk 14:6; ἔργα, Jo 3:21; τὰ ἔ. τ. θεοῦ, Jo 6:289:4; τὸ ἔ. κυρίου, I Co 16:10; τ. ἀγαθόν, Ro 2:10, Eph 4:28 (v. AR, Eph.) 190); id. seq. πρός, Ga 6:10; κακόν, seq. dat. pers. (more freq. dupl. acc, in cl.), Ro 13:10; δικαιοσύνην, Ac 10:35, He 11:33; ἀνομίαν, Mt 7:23; ἁμαρτίαν, Ja 2:9; σημεῖον, Jo 6:30; τ. ἱερά, I Co 9:13; τ. θάλασσαν (work the sea, i.e. make one's living from it), Re 18:17;
(b) to work for, earn by working (cl.): Jo 6:27 (cf. κατ-, περι-, προσ-εργάζομαι; Cremer, 258; on the force of the aorist of this verb, v. M, Pr., 116).†