Forms of the word
Dictionary
ποιητής, οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration
poiētēs
Simplified transliteration
poietes
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
6
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1f
Gloss
doer, keeper, obeyer; poet
Definition
a maker; the maker, or author of a song or poem, a poet, Acts 17:28; a doer; a performer of the enactments of a law, Rom. 2:13
Greek-English Concordance for ποιητής
| Acts 17:28 |
‘For in him we live and move about and exist,’ as even some of your own poets (poiētōn | ποιητῶν | gen pl masc) have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ |
| Romans 2:13 |
for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers (poiētai | ποιηταί | nom pl masc) of the law who will be declared righteous. |
| James 1:22 |
But be doers (poiētai | ποιηταί | nom pl masc) of the word and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. |
| James 1:23 |
For if someone is a hearer of the word and not a doer (poiētēs | ποιητής | nom sg masc), he is like a person who looks at his natural face in a mirror; |
| James 1:25 |
But the person who looks intently into the perfect law, the law that provides liberty, and continues in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active (poiētēs | ποιητής | nom sg masc) doer — he will be blessed in his doing. |
| James 4:11 |
Do not speak against one another, my brothers. Whoever speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer (poiētēs | ποιητής | nom sg masc) of the law but a judge of it. |