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ποιητής

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ποιητής, οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
poiētēs
Simplified transliteration: 
poietes
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4163
GK Number: 
4475
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.