Definition

to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.

Etymology

middle voice from G2041 (ἔργον);

Where the KJV renders it

• commit
• do
• labor for
• minister about
• trade (by)
• work

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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