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noun · feminine

Greekποίησις (poiēsis)
Biblang

poiēsias

Strong’sG4162

a doing

stem poiēsi-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.

ποίησις, -εως, ἡ

(ποιέω), [in LXX chiefly for מַעֲשֶׂה and cognate forms;]

1. a making (Hdt., Thuc., al.).
2. a doing (Si 19:18 51:19): Ja 1:25.†

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

Strong’s G4162 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpoy'-ay-sis

action, i.e. performance (of the law)

Fromfrom G4160;

King Jamesdeed.

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
ποί-ησις, εως, ἡ,
fabrication, creation, production, opposed to πρᾶξις (action, see Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of Poetry, ἡ τῶν διθυράμβων π., τῆς τραγῳδίας, τῶν ἐπῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, art of poetry, οἱ ἐν π. γενόμενοι Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἄκροι τῆς π. ἑκατέρας, i.e. tragedy and comedy, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b poetic composition, poem, ἐς ποίησιν ἐσενείκασθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={εἰσποίησις}, adoption, in plural, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ ποίησιν Refs 2nd c.BC+; ποιήσει υἱοί Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 in collective sense, those adopted, τῆς π. ἣν ἐκεῖνος ἐποιήσατο Refs
III method of procedure, in Magic, 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.

what … does1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativepoiēsiaspoiēsiais
object accusativepoiēsianpoiēsiain
direct address vocativepoiēsiarpoiēsiair
of, belonging to genitivepoiēsiaupoiēsiaiu
to, for dativepoiēsia1×ποιήσειpoiēsiai

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

poiēsia 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

poiēsia“what … does”to, fordative singular1×

James 1:25… poiētos ergeu, houtos makarios en ta poiēsia autou eti.… doer — he will be blessed in what he does.