1093 occurrences in 13 translations

'Work' in the Bible

In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.

He'll decide to come with the full power of his kingdom, bringing with him an alliance that he'll implement. He'll give him a daughter in marriage to overthrow it, but it won't succeed or work out for him.

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

And the northern I put far off from you, And have driven him unto a land dry and desolate, With his face unto the eastern sea, And his rear unto the western sea, And come up hath his stink, And come up doth his stench, For he hath exerted himself to work.

Do not fear, O land! joy and rejoice, For Jehovah hath exerted Himself to work.

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?

Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations' efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'If you live and work according to my requirements, you will be able to preside over my temple and attend to my courtyards, and I will allow you to come and go among these others who are standing by you.

For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.

Those who are now far away will come and do reconstruction work in the Temple of the LORD. Then you will know that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has sent me to you. This will come about if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God."'"

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

Another parable He spoke to them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen."

“This is John the Baptist!” he told his servants. “He has been raised from the dead, and that’s why supernatural powers are at work in him.”

"For the Kingdom of the Heavens is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard,

When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing in the marketplace without work.

And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.

About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, "Why are you standing here all day long without work?'

They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go and work in the vineyard too.'

And when they who came to work about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

And the landowner replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn't you agree with me to work for the standard wage?

But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

the man who had received five talents went, put them to work, and earned five more.

And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

King Herod heard of this, because Jesus’ name had become well known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that’s why supernatural powers are at work in him.”

And Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will provide signs and wonders in order to deceive, if [such a thing were] possible, even the elect [those God has chosen for Himself].

For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

And when the days of his work in the Temple were ended, he went back to his house.

But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me."

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns.

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened."

He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look! I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete My work.’

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

He asked, “What things?” And they replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet powerful in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people,

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

Jesus answered them, 'Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, "John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about this Teacher was true."

After [Judas had taken] the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly [without delay].”

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

"For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'Let his encampment be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there'; and "'His work let another take up.'

If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

In those days they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced and celebrated over the works of their hands.

And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐνεργέω 
Energeo 
Usage: 21

ἐνέργεια 
Energeia 
Usage: 8

κατεργάζομαι 
Katergazomai 
work , do , do deed , to perform , cause , work out
Usage: 24

חקה 
Chaqah 
Usage: 4

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 37

חשׁב 
Chashab 
Usage: 124

יגיע 
Y@giya` 
Usage: 16

יצר 
Yetser 
Usage: 9

מחשׁבת מחשׁבה 
Machashabah 
Usage: 56

מלאכה 
M@la'kah 
Usage: 167

מעבּד 
Ma`bad 
Usage: 1

מעבד 
Ma`bad (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מעלל 
Ma`alal 
Usage: 41

מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

מפלאה 
Miphla'ah 
Usage: 1

מפעלה מפעל 
Miph`al 
Usage: 3

מקשׁה 
Miqshah 
Usage: 10

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

עבד 
`abad (Aramaic) 
do , made , cut , do , do , worketh , executed , goeth , kept , moved , wrought
Usage: 28

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 1

עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

עבידה 
`abiydah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

עללה עלילה 
`aliylah 
Usage: 24

עליליּה 
`aliyliyah 
Usage: 1

עמל 
`amel 
Usage: 9

פּלא 
Pala' 
Usage: 71

פּעל 
Pa`al 
Usage: 57

פּעל 
Po`al 
work , act , deeds , do , getting , maker
Usage: 37

פּעלּה 
P@`ullah 
Usage: 14

פּתּח פּתּוּח 
Pittuwach 
Usage: 11

רקמה 
Riqmah 
Usage: 12

שׂבכה 
S@bakah 
Usage: 15

תּשׁיּה תּוּשׁיּה 
Tuwshiyah 
Usage: 11

δύναμις 
Dunamis 
Usage: 95

ἐνέργημα 
Energema 
Usage: 2

ἐργάζομαι 
Ergazomai 
Usage: 28

ἐργασία 
Ergasia 
Usage: 5

ἐργάτης 
Ergates 
Usage: 6

ἔργον 
Ergon 
Usage: 130

μεγαλεῖος 
megaleios 
Usage: 2

μόλις 
Molis 
Usage: 6

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do , make , bring forth , commit , cause , work , show , bear , keep , fulfil , deal , perform , not tr , , vr do
Usage: 372

ποίημα 
Poiema 
Usage: 2

πρᾶγμα 
Pragma 
Usage: 10

πρᾶξις 
Praxis 
Usage: 5

συνεργέω 
sunergeo 
Usage: 5

συνεργός 
sunergos 
Usage: 13

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