G2040 – ergates – ἐργάτης – labourer, worker(-men)
- Strong’s ID:
- G2040
- Greek Word:
- ἐργάτης
- Transliteration:
- ergates
- Pronunciation:
- er-gat’-ace
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 16
- Search:
- Find “ergates” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G2041; a toiler; figuratively, a teacher:—labourer, worker(-men).
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a workman, a labourer
1a) usually one who works for hire especially an agricultural worker
2) one who does, a worker, perpetrator
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.