Topic
Worker; Workfellow; Workman
42 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 26:1ISBE
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 26:31ISBE
¶ And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
- Exodus 28:6ISBE
¶ And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 28:15ISBE
¶ And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
- Exodus 36:8ISBE
¶ And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
- Exodus 36:35ISBE
¶ And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
- Exodus 39:3ISBE
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 39:8ISBE
¶ And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Judges 5:26ISBE
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
- 1 Kings 7:14ISBE
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.
- 2 Kings 12:14ISBE
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:15ISBE
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
Show 30 more
- 1 Chronicles 22:15 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 25:1 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 24:13 ISBE
- Ezra 3:9 ISBE
- Job 31:3 ISBE
- Job 34:8 ISBE
- Job 34:22 ISBE
- Psalms 5:5 ISBE
- Psalms 6:8 ISBE
- Psalms 14:4 ISBE
- Psalms 37:1 ISBE
- Proverbs 8:30 ISBE
- Proverbs 10:29 ISBE
- Proverbs 21:15 ISBE
- Isaiah 40:20 ISBE
- Isaiah 44:11 ISBE
- Jeremiah 10:3 ISBE
- Jeremiah 10:9 ISBE
- Hosea 8:6 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 38:27 ISBE
- Matthew 10:10 ISBE
- Luke 13:27 ISBE
- Acts 19:25 ISBE
- Romans 16:21 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 12:29 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 6:1 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 11:13 ISBE
- Philippians 3:2 ISBE
- Colossians 4:11 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 2:15 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 43 references
wur'-der, wurk'-fel-o, wurk'-man (charash, pa`al; ergates, sunergos): "Worker" (artificer) is the translation of charash, "to cut in" (1Ki 7:14, "a worker in brass"), and of charash, "artificer," etc. (1Ch 22:15); "workers of stone," rendered "workman," "workmen" (Isa 40:20; 44:11; Jer 10:3,9, "artificer"; Ho 8:6); `asah, "to work," is translated "workers" of iniquity (Ps 37:1, "them that work unrighteousness"); `asah mela'khah, "to do work" (2Ki 12:14,15, "workmen," "them that did the work"; 1Ch 22:15; 2Ch 24:13, etc.; Ezr 3:9);'aneshe mela'khah, "men of work" (1Ch 25:1, "workmen," "them that did the work"); `amel, "working," "toiling" (Jud 5:26, "put .... her right hand to the workmen's hammer"); pa`al, "to act," "do," when translated "workers," is joined with "iniquity," "workers of iniquity" (Job 31:3; 34:8,22; Ps 5:5; 6:8; 14:4, etc.; Pr 10:29; 21:15); ergates, "worker," is translated "workman" (Mt 10:10, "laborer"; 2Ti 2:15; Ac 19:25), "workers" (of iniquity) (Lu 13:27), "deceitful workers" (2Co 11:13), "evil workers" (Php 3:2); dunamis, "power," is translated "(workers of) miracles" (1Co 12:29 margin, the Revised Version (British and American) "powers"); sunergeo, "to work with" (2Co 6:1, "working together with him").
Workfellow is the translation of sunergos, "joint or fellow-worker" (Ro 16:21; Col 4:11).
Workmaster occurs in Ecclesiasticus 38:27, as the translation of architekton.
For "of ("with") cunning work" (Ex 26:1,31; 28:6,15; 36:8,35; 39:3,8), the American Standard Revised Version has "the work of the skillful workman," the English Revised Version "of the cunning workman"; instead of "I was by him as one brought up (with him)" (Pr 8:30), the Revised Version (British and American) has "I was by him as a master workman.
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.