ποιητής, -οῦ ὁ (ποιέω), [in LXX: 1Ma.2:67 * ;] in cl., 1. a maker, author. 2. Esp., a poet: Act.17:28. Later, 3. a doer: τ. νόμου, Rom.2:13, Jas.4:11 (1Mac, l.with); ἔργου, Jas.1:25; λόγου, ib. Jas.1:22-23.† (AS)
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G4163 — ποιητής
poiētēs · doer · Greek
6 tagged verse occurrences
Acts 17:28 · ποιητῶν‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’Romans 2:13 · ποιηταὶFor 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 1:22 · ποιηταὶBe doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.James 1:23 · ποιητής,For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,James 1:25 · ποιητὴςBut 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 4:11 · ποιητὴςBrothers, 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.