dēmiourgos

Strong’sG1217

an artisan, builder

stem dēmiourg-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.

** 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.

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

δημιουργ-ός,
Epic dialect δημιοεργός (also Refs 5th c.BC+, ὁ, one who works for the people, skilled workman, handicraftsman (opposed to ἰδιώτης, Refs 8th c.BC+; of medical practitioners, Refs 5th c.BC+; but opposed to scientific physicians (ἀρχιτεκτονικοί), Refs 4th c.BC+; of sculptors, Refs 5th c.BC+; of confectioners and cooks, Refs 5th c.BC+; μέλιτος δ., of the bee, Refs 4th c.AD+; οἱ δ. the artisan class at Athens, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to πολιτικοί, Refs 5th c.BC+; δαμιουργοί, ={πόρναι}, Refs 5th c.AD+
2 metaphorically, maker, ἡ μαντικὴ φιλίας θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων δ. Refs 5th c.BC+; νόμων, πολιτείας, Refs 4th c.BC+; δ. κακῶν author of ill, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄρθρος δημιοεργός morn that calls man to work, Refs
3 creator, producer, νυκτός τε καὶ ἡμέρας Refs 5th c.BC+; especially in later philosophy, the Creator of the visible world, Demiurge, [Refs 5th c.BC+; also name for μονάς, Refs adjective, δ. λόγος creative reason, Refs 5th c.AD+
II in many Greek states, title of a magistrate, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.:—Doric dialect δαμιωργός, Refs; δαμιουργός, Refs; δαμιοργός, Refs 1st c.BC+; δαμιεργός, Refs:—Ionic dialect δημιοργός, Refs 4th c.BC+
III as a priestly title, δ. θεᾶς Ῥώμης Refs 3rd 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.

builder1×

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	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

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

dēmiourgos“builder”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 11:10… themelioin echarōntan polan, hau technitos kai dēmiourgos tos theos.… city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.