Definition
ποιητής, -οῦ ὁ
(ποιέω), [in LXX: 1Ma.2.67 * ;]
in cl.,
1. a maker, author.
2. Esp., a poet: Acts 17:28. Later,
3. a doer: τ. νόμου, Romans 2:13, James 4:11 (1Mac, l.with); ἔργου, James 1:25; λόγου, ib. James 1:22-23.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
6 total
- Acts 17:28ποιητῶν · poets‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- Romans 2:13ποιηταὶ · doersFor it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- James 1:22ποιηταὶ · doersBe doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
- James 1:23ποιητής · does not carry it outFor anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
- James 1:25ποιητὴς · doerBut the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
- James 4:11ποιητὴς · a practitionerBrothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.