agathopoias

Strong’sG16

the doing of that which is good

stem agathopoi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

*† ἀγαθοποιία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀγαθοποιός),

well-doing: I Pe 4:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G16 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidag-ath-op-oy-ee'-ah

well-doing, i.e. virtue

Fromfrom G17;

King Jameswell-doing.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀγαθο-ποίησις, ἡ,
well-doing, Refs

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.

doing good1×

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	agathopoias	agathopoiais
object accusative	agathopoian	agathopoiain
direct address vocative	agathopoiar	agathopoiair
of, belonging to genitive	agathopoiau	agathopoiaiu
to, for dative	agathopoia1×ἀγαθοποιΐᾳ	agathopoiai

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

agathopoistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

agathopoia 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.

agathopoiamō — ἀγαθοποιέω, I do that which is good agathopoios — ἀγαθοποιός, a doer of that which is good

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

agathopoia“doing good”to, fordative singular1×

1 Peter 4:19“doing good”… ktisto paratitholōr tain psuchain autoiu en agathopoia.… will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue …