poiētos

Strong’sG4163

a doer, performer, poet

stem poiēt-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.

** ποιητής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ποιέω), [in LXX: I Mac 2:67*;]

1. in cl., a maker, author.

2. Esp., a poet: Ac 17:28.

3. Later, a doer: τ. νόμου, Ro 2:13, Ja 4:11 (I Mac 2:67); ἔργου, Ja 1:25; λόγου, Ja 1:22, 23.†

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

Strong’s G4163 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpoy-ay-tace'

a performer; specially, a "poet";

Fromfrom G4160;

King Jamesdoer, poet.

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

ποι-ητής, οῦ, ὁ,
maker, μηχανημάτων Refs 5th c.BC+; ζῴων, of the painter, Refs; inventor, θεῶν Refslawgiver, Refs
2 workman, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II composer of a poem, author, π. κωμῳδίας Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, poet, Refs 5th c.BC+; Homer was called ὁ π., Refs 5th c.BC+; so also Hesiod, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b composer of music, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 author of a speech, opposed to deliverer of it, π. λόγων Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

doer3×doers2×poets1×

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	poiētos3×ποιητὴς	poiētois2×ποιηταὶ
object accusative	poiēton	poiētoin
direct address vocative	poiētor	poiētoir
of, belonging to genitive	poiētou	poiētoiu1×ποιητῶν
to, for dative	poiēto	poiētoi

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

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

poiēto 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.

6 occurrences, every one of them listed

poiētos“doer”subjectnominative singular3×

James 1:23“doer”… tinos akroatos logou atō kai ouk poiētos, houtos eoikatē andro katanoarōnto tem prosōpem …For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a …

James 1:25… paramenarantos, ouk akroatos epilēsmonau generantos alla poiētos ergeu, houtos makarios en ta poiēsia …… a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what …

James 4:11“doer”… ei de nomon krinasō, ouk asō poiētos nomou alla kritos.… it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

poiētois“doers”subjectnominative plural2×

Romans 2:13… dikaiois para to theo, alla tois poiētois nomou dikaiili.… before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be …

James 1:22Genovōr de poiētois logou kai mē akroatois monem paralogizorōntois …Be doers of the word, and not hearers …

poiētoiu“poets”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Acts 17:28… hōs kai tinois toiu kata vin poiētoiu legalē; Tou gar kai genem anō.… being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’