Ergates means “labourer” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2040 — harac (“destroy”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2040 ἐργάτης (ergates) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ergates (er-gat'-ace) n. 1. a toiler 2. (figuratively) a teacher It has 19 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include labourers, workers, and labourer. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
ergates (er-gat'-ace) n. 1. a toiler 2. (figuratively) a teacher [from G2041] KJV: labourer, worker(-men) Root(s): G2041
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worker
Usage: ἐργάτης, -ου, ὁ (ἐργάζομαι, which see), [in LXX: Wis.17:17, Sir.19:1 40:18, 1Ma.3:6 * ;] __1. prop., a field labourer, husbandman: Mat.9:37-38 20:1-2, 8, Luk.10:2, Jas.5:4 (cf. Wis, l.with). __2. Generally, a workman, labourer: Mat.10:10, Luk.10:7, Act.19:25 (opposite to τεχνίτης), 1Ti.5:18; of Christian teachers, 2Co.11:13, Php.3:2, 2Ti.2:15. __3. a worker, doer: τ. ἀδικίας, Luk.13:27 (cf. 1Mac, l.with).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ergates, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2040 (ἐργάτης) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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15 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, Shut up in a prison without iron bars.
A laboring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: And he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2040.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
For the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, Shut up in a prison without iron bars.
A laboring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: And he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
To labor, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life: But he that findeth a treasure is above them both.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2040, grouped by book.
Ergates (Strong's G2040) is a Greek word most simply glossed "labourer". ergates (er-gat'-ace) n. 1. a toiler 2. (figuratively) a teacher
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G2040 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2040 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as labourers, workers, and labourer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2040, with linked reader references where each row is available.