Strong's #2040: ergates (pronounced er-gat'-ace)

from 2041; a toiler; figuratively, a teacher:--labourer, worker(-men).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ergatēs

1) a workman, a labourer

1a) usually one who works for hire especially an agricultural worker

2) one who does, a worker, perpetrator

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2041

Citing in TDNT: 2:635, 251

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Matthew 9:37: "is plenteous, but the laborers are few;"
Matthew 9:38: "harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest."
Matthew 10:10: "yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat."
Matthew 20:1: "went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard."
Matthew 20:2: "when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent"
Matthew 20:8: "steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire,"
Luke 10:2: "is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the"
Luke 10:2: "harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."
Luke 10:7: "such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy"
Luke 13:27: "from me, all ye workers of iniquity."
Acts 19:25: "he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs,"
2 Corinthians 11:13: "such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."
Philippians 3:2: "of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
1 Timothy 5:18: "that treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his reward."
2 Timothy 2:15: "thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word"
James 5:4: "the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of"