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WORKER; WORKFELLOW; WORKMAN

wur'-der, wurk'-fel-o, wurk'-man (charash, pa`al; ergates, sunergos): "Worker" (artificer) is the translation of charash, "to cut in" (1 Ki 7:14, "a worker in brass"), and of charash, "artificer," etc. (1 Ch 22:15); "workers of stone," rendered "workman," "workmen" (Isa 40:20; 44:11; Jer 10:3,9, "artificer"; Hos 8:6); `asah, "to work," is translated "workers" of iniquity (Ps 37:1, "them that work unrighteousness"); `asah mela'khah, "to do work" (2 Ki 12:14,15, "workmen," "them that did the work"; 1 Ch 22:15; 2 Ch 24:13, etc.; Ezr 3:9);'aneshe mela'khah, "men of work" (1 Ch 25:1, "workmen," "them that did the work"); `amel, "working," "toiling" (Jdg 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.; Prov 10:29; 21:15); ergates, "worker," is translated "workman" (Mt 10:10, "laborer"; 2 Tim 2:15; Acts 19:25), "workers" (of iniquity) (Lk 13:27), "deceitful workers" (2 Cor 11:13), "evil workers" (Phil 3:2); dunamis, "power," is translated "(workers of) miracles" (1 Cor 12:29 margin, the Revised Version (British and American) "powers"); sunergeo, "to work with" (2 Cor 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" (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)" (Prov 8:30), the Revised Version (British and American) has "I was by him as a master workman.
W. L. Walker Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'worker; workfellow; workman'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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