Co-worker
συνεργόςStrong’s G4904sunergos
Appears in 13 verses of the New Testament
In short
Sunergos is the Greek word usually translated “fellow workers” and “fellow worker”. It appears in 13 verses of the New Testament.
“Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,”
Meaning
Usually translated “fellow workers” and “fellow worker”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- fellow workers 6
- fellow worker 5
- a fellow worker 1
- of fellow workers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 3
- 2 Corinthians 2
- Philippians 2
- Philemon 2
- 1 Corinthians 1
- Colossians 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Philemon 1:24In contextMarcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
- 3 John 1:8In contextWe therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
- Romans 16:3Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
- Romans 16:9Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
- Romans 16:21Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
Greek dictionary
συνεργός sunergos · co-worker
συνεργός, -όν [in LXX: 2Ma.8:7 Mac 14:5 * ;] a fellow-worker: with genitive of person(s), Rom.16:3, 9 16:21, Php.2:25 4:3, 1Th.3:2, Rec., Phm 1 24; θεοῦ (cf. Lft., Notes, 41, 188), 1Co.3:9 (pl.), 1Th.3:2 [WH] R, mg. (R, txt., διάκονον τοῦ θ.; on the original reading, see ICC, in l); τ. χαρᾶς ὑηῶν, 2Co.1:24; τ. ἀληθείᾳ, III Jn 8; before εἰς, 2Co.8:23, Col.4:11.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coworker” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CO-WORKER, noun
One that works with another; a co-operator.
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.