noun · masculine

dēmiourgos

Greekδημιουργός (dēmiourgos)

Strong’sG1217

an artisan, builder

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

Translated as

builder1×

What it means

** δημιουργός, -οῦ, ὑ

(< δῆμος, ἔργον), [in LXX: II Mac 4:1 *;]

1. one who works for the people.

2. Univ., an author, builder, maker; the maker of the world (Xen., Mem., I, 4, 9, al.), He 11:10.†

SYN.: κτίστης, creator, τεχνίτης, craftsman, designer. In He, l.c., τ. has reference to the plan, δ. to its execution.

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

Strong’s G1217 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidday-me-oor-gos'

a worker for the people, i.e. mechanic (spoken of the Creator)

Fromfrom G1218 and G2041;

King Jamesmaker.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	dēmiourgos1×δημιουργὸς	dēmiourgois
object accusative	dēmiourgon	dēmiourgoin
direct address vocative	dēmiourgor	dēmiourgoir
of, belonging to genitive	dēmiourgou	dēmiourgoiu
to, for dative	dēmiourgo	dēmiourgoi

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

dēmiourgstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dēmiourgo 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

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

dēmiourgos“builder”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 11:10“builder”ekdechete gar tan toin themelioin echarōtan politan, hau technitos kai dēmiourgos tos theos.For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.