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Γεωργός names a farmer, cultivator, vineyard worker, or tenant responsible for agricultural land. In Jesus' vineyard parable, tenant farmers receive a carefully prepared vineyard but violently reject the owner's servants and son, exposing unfaithful stewardship and resistance to God's authority.
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Γεωργός names a farmer, cultivator, vineyard worker, or tenant responsible for agricultural land. In Jesus' vineyard parable, tenant farmers receive a carefully prepared vineyard but violently reject the owner's servants and son, exposing unfaithful stewardship and resistance to God's authority.
The BSB source-word alignment has 19 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include tenants (12), to [some] tenants (3), farmer (2), - (1), keeper of the vineyard (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 21:33. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (6), Luke (5), Mark (5), 2 Timothy (1).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Γεωργός names a farmer, cultivator, vineyard worker, or tenant responsible for agricultural land. In Jesus' vineyard parable, tenant farmers receive a carefully prepared vineyard but violently reject the owner's servants and son, exposing unfaithful stewardship and resistance to God's authority. In John 15, Jesus is the true vine and the Father is the cultivator who tends the branches for fruit.
Paul uses the hardworking farmer as a picture of patient labor rightly sharing in the crop. The noun does not make every farmer symbolically identical. Owner, tenant, cultivator, crop, labor, and accountability differ across passages, and each context determines whether the emphasis falls on stewardship, judgment, pruning, patience, or reward.
Γεωργός identifies one who cultivates land. Rebellious vineyard tenants, the Father tending the true vine, and a hardworking farmer reveal stewardship under ownership, purposeful care, and patient participation in fruit.
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
The landowner supplies and protects the vineyard before entrusting it to tenants, making their later violence a revolt against generous ownership and rightful fruit.
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Mark intensifies the repeated rejection of servants before the beloved son is killed, directing the parable toward leaders who recognize the judgment aimed at them.
Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.
Luke emphasizes the owner's long absence and patient appeals, but patience does not cancel the tenants' accountability when they reject the son.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
Jesus names Himself the true vine and His Father the cultivator, locating fruitfulness in union with the Son and the Father's purposeful tending.
The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
The hardworking farmer receives the first share of crops, illustrating patient labor and fitting participation rather than instant or effortless reward.
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Greek word. One who works the land actively, whether farming crops or tending vineyards; laborer.
One who works the land actively, whether farming crops or tending vineyards; laborer.
(γῆ, ἔργω = ἔρδω, to do), [in LXX for אִכָּר, etc. ;]
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 19 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a worker of the soil, husbandman, vine-dresser
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
γεωργός is built from these roots:
Cultivators work land they did not create and remain answerable for its fruit. Jesus' tenant parable begins with an owner's generous preparation, then exposes workers who convert stewardship into possession and answer every claim with violence, finally killing the son. John 15 presents the Father's cultivation differently: He tends branches joined to the true vine so they bear lasting fruit.
Second Timothy adds patient participation, where the farmer labors before tasting the crop. These images resist both passivity and ownership pride. God provides vineyard, vine, life, and harvest; servants cultivate what belongs to Him, receive correction, and wait for fruit in season. Churches should measure faithfulness by abiding in Christ, honoring the Owner, and tending people without acting as though the field belongs to leaders.
Matt.21.33
Γεωργός combines land or field language with work and may designate a farmer, vine dresser, or tenant cultivator. Possessive and narrative relationships clarify ownership and role.
Israel is God's planted vineyard, rulers are accountable for its fruit, and wisdom honors patient cultivation. Jesus identifies Himself as the true vine under the Father's care.