"to work out; to effect, produce, bring out as a result, Rom. 4:15; 5:3; 7:13; 2 Cor. 4:17; 7:10; Phil. 2:12; 1 Pet. 4:3; Jas. 1:3; to work, practice, realize in practice, Rom. 1:27; 2:9; to work or mould into fitness, 2 Cor. 5:5, despatch, Eph. 6:13"
Definition and meaning
to work out; to effect, produce, bring out as a result, Rom. 4:15; 5:3; 7:13; 2 Cor. 4:17; 7:10; Phil. 2:12; 1 Pet. 4:3; Jas. 1:3; to work, practice, realize in practice, Rom. 1:27; 2:9; to work or mould into fitness, 2 Cor. 5:5, despatch, Eph. 6:13
In the original Greek the word is written: κατεργάζομαι
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of katergazomai (G2716) across the King James Bible.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For I know that in me(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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Common questions
Strong's G2716 (katergazomai) is a Greek word that means: to work out; to effect, produce, bring out as a result, Rom. 4:15; 5:3; 7:13; 2 Cor. 4:17; 7:10; Phil. 2:12; 1 Pet. 4:3; Jas. 1:3; to work, practice, realize in practice, Rom. 1:27; 2:9; to work or mo... It appears 23 times in the King James Bible.
The word katergazomai (G2716) appears 23 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G2716 is katergazomai, a Greek word defined as: to work out; to effect, produce, bring out as a result, Rom. 4:15; 5:3; 7:13; 2 Cor. 4:17; 7:10; Phil. 2:12; 1 Pet. 4:3; Jas. 1:3; to work, practice, . James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
katergazomai is a Greek word found in the New Testament.