noun · masculine
agathopoios
Strong’sG17
a doer 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.
**† ἀγαθοποιός, -όν = cl. ἀγαθουργός,
[in LXX, of a woman who deals pleasantly in order to corrupt, Si 42:14*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G17 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
beneficent, LXX+1st c.AD+; of the King of Persia, Men.Prot.Refs
II Astrology texts, exerting beneficent influence, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III creating the Good, Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | agathopoios | agathopoiois |
| object accusative | agathopoion | agathopoioin |
| direct address vocative | agathopoior | agathopoioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | agathopoiou | agathopoioiu1×ἀγαθοποιῶν |
| to, for dative | agathopoio | agathopoioi |
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
agathopoio 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
agathopoioiu“who do right”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
1 Peter 2:14… pemporōntoi eis ekdikēsian kakopoioiu epainon de agathopoioiu… do wrong and to praise those who do right.