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Word Study · Strong's G4160 · Greek

ποιέω

poieo

poy-eh'-o

Strong's 1890 spelling: poiéō

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

Rendered in the KJV as

abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield.

  • 569
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 19 of 27
    New Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 150
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 150

  • ἐποίησεν58
  • ποιῆσαι23
  • ποιεῖτε22
  • ποιήσας19
  • ποιῶν17
  • ποιεῖν15
  • ποιήσω13
  • ἐποίησαν12
  • ποιήσει12
  • ποιεῖ11
  • ἐποίει10
  • ποιήσατε9

and 138 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 242

  • did26
  • to do23
  • doing15
  • do make13
  • having done13
  • do perform11
  • making11
  • made10
  • having made9
  • do7
  • I may do7
  • to do.7

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 78

  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 3rd person singular73
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, infinitive (“to…”)36
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)24
  • verb · present active, statement · 1st person singular21
  • verb · present active, statement · 3rd person singular21
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine singular19
  • verb · present active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine singular17
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, subjunctive · 1st person singular16
  • verb · future active, statement · 3rd person singular16
  • verb · present active, statement · 2nd person plural16
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 3rd person plural15
  • verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural15
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • V-AAI-3S · 73
  • V-AAN · 36
  • V-PAN · 24
  • V-PAI-1S · 21
  • V-PAI-3S · 21
  • V-AAP-NSM · 19
  • V-PAP-NSM · 17
  • V-AAS-1S · 16
  • V-FAI-3S · 16
  • V-PAI-2P · 16
  • V-AAI-3P · 15
  • V-PAM-2P · 15

The first 500 of 569, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

John carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew86 occurrences
Mark47 occurrences
Luke88 occurrences
John110 occurrences
Acts68 occurrences
Romans23 occurrences
1 Corinthians14 occurrences
2 Corinthians9 occurrences
Galatians6 occurrences
Ephesians10 occurrences
Philippians3 occurrences
Colossians3 occurrences
1 Thessalonians4 occurrences
2 Thessalonians2 occurrences
1 Timothy4 occurrences
2 Timothy1 occurrence
Titus1 occurrence
Philemon3 occurrences
Hebrews18 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).