'Worker' in the Bible
So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.
" '{No stranger shall eat} [the] votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat [the] votive offering.
You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat -- you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,
He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
Don't view this as a hardship for yourself when you set him free, for he will have served you for six years twice the time of a paid worker. Then the LORD will bless you in all that you do."
Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
"You shall not exploit a hired worker, [who is] needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from [among] your aliens who are in your land [and] in your {towns}.
Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:
And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
Jeroboam was a talented man; when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe of Joseph.
So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.
the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood; in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics, and in fine linen. He is able to make any kind of engraving and to carry out any design given him. He will work with your skilled men and those of my lord, David your father.
Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.
Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."
That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
Your tongue devises destruction,Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.
There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
The life of a worker works for him, for his {hunger} urges him.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.
What does the worker gain from his struggles?
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.
The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”
A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.
But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food.
Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Don’t be moving from house to house.
He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’
But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,
because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.
But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:
And he was living in Joppa for some time with Simon, a leather-worker.
Who is living with Simon, a leather-worker, whose house is by the sea.
Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.
And when they had gone through all the island to Paphos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus;
But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.
for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,
Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker on your behalf. Our brothers, emissaries from the churches, are bringing glory to the Messiah.
Meanwhile, I thought it best to send Epaphroditus my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need back to you.
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,
For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox while it is treading out grain," and, "A worker deserves his pay."
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.
Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:
1From: Paul, a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus, and Timothy our brother. To: Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker,
And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;
Related Words
- Byssus-workers (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Co-worker (7 instances in 3 translations)
- Co-workers (6 instances in 3 translations)
- Evil-workers (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Fellow-worker (5 instances in 2 translations)
- Fellow-workers (8 instances in 11 translations)
- Handworker (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Ironworker (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Ironworkers (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Leatherworker (3 instances in 1 translation)
- Metal-worker (5 instances in 6 translations)
- Metal-workers (7 instances in 2 translations)
- Stoneworkers (3 instances in 1 translation)
- Wonder-workers (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Woodworker (2 instances in 3 translations)
- Woodworker's (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Woodworkers (7 instances in 1 translation)
- Worker's (9 instances in 4 translations)
- Workers (121 instances in 13 translations)