Worker, Workfellow, Workman
Worker, Workfellow, Workman
wurker, wurkfel-o, wurkman (, harash, , paal; , ergates, , sunergos): Worker (artificer) is the translation of harash, to cut in (1Ki 7:14, a worker in brass), and of harash, artificer, etc. (1Ch 22:15); workers of stone, rendered workman, workmen (Isa 40:20; Isa 44:11; Jer 10:3, Jer 10:9, artificer; Hos 8:6); asah, to work, is translated workers of iniquity (Psa 37:1, them that work unrighteousness); asah mela’khah, to do work (2Ki 12:14, 2Ki 12:15, 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 (Jdg 5:26, put … her right hand to the workmen’s hammer); paal, to act, do, when translated workers, is joined with iniquity, workers of iniquity (Job 31:3; Job 34:8, Job 34:22; Psa 5:5; Psa 6:8; Psa 14:4, etc.; Pro 10:29; Pro 21:15); ergates, worker, is translated workman (Mat 10:10, laborer; 2Ti 2:15; Act 19:25), workers (of iniquity) (Luk 13:27), deceitful workers (2Co 11:13), evil workers (Phi 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 (Rom 16:21; Col 4:11).
Workmaster occurs in Ecclesiasticus 38:27, as the translation of architekton.
For of (with) cunning work (Exo 26:1, Exo 26:31; Exo 28:6, Exo 28:15; Exo 36:8, Exo 36:35; Exo 39:3, Exo 39:8), 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) (Pro 8:30), the Revised Version (British and American) has I was by him as a master workman.