Be active

Usually translated “working”, “is working” and “works”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• working 5
• is working 4
• works 3
• are working 1
• operate 1
• were at work 1
• is operating 1
• having worked 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Ephesians 4
• Galatians 3
• 1 Corinthians 2
• 2 Corinthians 2
• Matthew 1
• Mark 1

12 books in all.

• Active energy (energeia)
• Effective (energēs, enargēs)

• Matthew 14:2And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
• Mark 6:14And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
• Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• 1 Corinthians 12:6And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
• 1 Corinthians 12:11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
• 2 Corinthians 1:6And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “working” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.