noun · masculine
geōrgos
Strong’sG1092
a worker of the soil, husbandman, vine-dresser
stem geōrg-19 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books6 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
γεωργός denotes a worker of the soil, that is, a farmer or husbandman 423. It is used of someone whose occupation is tending the land generally 13.
The word is also used more specifically for a vine-dresser, someone who works or tends a vineyard 413.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
γεωργός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< γῆ, ἔργω = ἔρδω, to do), [in LXX for אִכָּר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1092 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(γῆ, ἔργον) tilling the ground, βοίδιον Refs 5th c.BC+; fertilizing, Νεῖλος Refs 4th c.AD+ —as substantive, γεωργός, ὁ, husbandman, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ γ., opposed to οἱ μισθαρνοῦντες, Refs 4th c.BC+; but γ., opposed to ὁ δεσπότης τοῦ χωρίου, Refs; so of vine-dressers, gardeners, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; γ. ὄχλος the peasantry, Refs 1st c.BC+; γ. βίος probably in Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | geōrgos2×γεωργός | geōrgois5×γεωργοὶ |
| object accusative | geōrgon1×γεωργὸν | geōrgoin5×γεωργοὺς |
| direct address vocative | geōrgor | geōrgoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | geōrgou | geōrgoiu1×γεωργῶν |
| to, for dative | geōrgo | geōrgoi5×γεωργοῖς |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
geōrgo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
19 occurrences, every one of them listed
geōrgos“farmer”subjectnominative singular2×
John 15:1“vinedresser”… alēthinas, kai tos patros mu tos geōrgos atō;… am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
James 5:7… tau parousiau tou kuriou. idou tos geōrgos ekdechotō ton timion karpon tau gēau, …… the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the …
geōrgon“farmer”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Timothy 2:6ton kopiarōnton geōrgon datō prōtem toiu karpoiu metalabarō.The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake …
geōrgois“tenants”subjectnominative plural5×
Matthew 21:35kai labarantois tois geōrgois toin douloin autou hon men derala, …But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one …
Matthew 21:38tois de geōrgois horarantois ton huion legala en heautoi; …But when the tenants saw the son, they said to …
Mark 12:7ekeinois de tois geōrgois pros heautoin legala hoti Houtos atō …But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is …
Luke 20:10… tou ampelōnou dōali auto; tois de geōrgois exapostelala auton derarantois kenon.… fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him …
Luke 20:14horarantois de auton tois geōrgois dialogizole pros allēloin legarōntois; Houtos atō …But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it …
geōrgoin“tenants”objectaccusative plural5×
Matthew 21:34… apostelata toin douloin autou pros toin geōrgoin labara toin karpoin autou.… he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the …
Mark 12:2kai apostelata pros toin geōrgoin to kairo doulon, hina para toiu …… he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the …
Mark 12:9… tou ampelōnou? ercheti kai apolati toin geōrgoin, kai dōati ton ampelōnon allosoi.… He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Luke 20:10kai kairo apostelata pros toin geōrgoin doulon, hina apo tou karpou tou …… he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the …
Luke 20:16ercheti kai apolati toin geōrgoin houtoin, kai dōati ton ampelōnon allosoi. …He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others …
geōrgoiu“tenant farmers”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Mark 12:2“tenant farmers”… to kairo doulon, hina para toiu geōrgoiu labateia apo toiu karpoiu tou ampelōnou;At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
geōrgoi“tenant farmers”to, fordative plural5×
Matthew 21:33“tenant farmers”… kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.… it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to …
Matthew 21:40… kurios tou ampelōnou, tinem poiati toi geōrgoi ekeinoi?… what will he do to those tenants?”
Matthew 21:41… autoin, kai ton ampelōnon ekdōeti allosoi geōrgoi, hotinois apodōali auto toin karpoin en …… rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share …
Mark 12:1“tenant farmers”… kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata.… vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a …
Luke 20:9“tenant farmers”… Anthrōpos futeuata ampelōnon, kai ekdōeta auton geōrgoi, kai apodēmata chronoin hikanoin.… parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.