Words

ἐργάζομαι G2038

Home gloss

work (v.)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

till

Note

"To work the land" (2:5, 15); the verb of ἔργον "work"

Rulings

2

Declared to share English with

• G2041 — one root: work (n.) / work (v.) (142c)

Occurrences (5)

Genesis 2 (Septuagint)

• 2:5 and every green of the field before it came to be on the land, and every grass of the field before it sprang up; for God had not rained on the land, and human there was not to work the land;
• 2:15 And the Lord God took the human whom he had shaped and set him in the paradise, to work it and to guard.

Genesis 3 (Septuagint)

• 3:23 And the Lord God sent him out from the paradise of delight, to work the land from which he was taken.

Genesis 4 (Septuagint)

• 4:2 And she added to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel came to be a shepherd of sheep, but Cain was working the land.
• 4:12 For you work the land, and it shall not add to give its strength to you; groaning and trembling you shall be on the land."