noun · feminine
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;]
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
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.
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 | poiēsias | poiēsiais |
| object accusative | poiēsian | poiēsiain |
| direct address vocative | poiēsiar | poiēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | poiēsiau | poiēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | poiēsia1×ποιήσει | poiēsiai |
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
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.