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To workout/produce

κατεργάζομαιStrong’s G2716

katergazomai

Appears in 22 verses of the New Testament

In short

Katergazomai is the Greek word usually translated “produces”, “working out” and “is working”. It appears in 22 verses of the New Testament.

“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.”
Romans 1:27 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • produces 4
  • working out 1
  • is working 1
  • brings 1
  • it produced 1
  • is working out 1
  • i do 1
  • am doing 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Romans 11
  • 2 Corinthians 6
  • 1 Corinthians 1
  • Ephesians 1
  • Philippians 1
  • James 1

7 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

κατεργάζομαι katergazomai · to workout/produce

κατ-εργάζομαι (emphatic form of ἐργάζομαι), [in LXX for פָּעַל, etc. (9 exx., each for a different Heb. word) ;] to effect by labour, achieve, work out, bring about: with accusative, Rom.4:15 5:3 7:8, 15-20, 2Co.7:10, Eph.6:13, Jas.1:3; pass., 2Co.12:12; with accusative of thing(s) and dative of person(s), Rom.7:13, 2Co.4:17 7:11 9:11; id. before διά, with genitive of person(s), Rom.15:18; τ. σωτηρίαν, Php.2:12; with accusative of person(s) before εἰς, 2Co.5:5 (RV, wrought); of evil deeds, Rom.1:27 2:9, 1Co.5:3, 1Pe.4:3.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

PRODU'CE, verb transitive

[Latin produco; pro and duco, to lead or draw.]

  1. To bring forward; to bring or offer to view or notice; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.“Produce your cause” Isaiah 41:21
  2. To exhibit to the public.
  3. To bring forth; to bear; as plants or the soil.
  4. To bear; to generate and bring forth; as young.
All definitions and other forms of “produce”
  1. To cause; to effect; to bring into existence.
  2. To raise; to bring into being.
  3. To make; to bring into being or form.
  4. To yield or furnish.
  5. In general, to bring into existence or into view.
  6. To draw out in length; to extend; as a line produced from A to B.

PROD'UCE, noun

That which is produced, brought forth or yielded; product; as the produce of a farm; the produce of trees; the produce of a country; the produce of a manufacture; the produce of the sea; the produce of a tax; the produce of a mine. But when we speak of something formed by an individual artisan or genius, we call it a production.

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.