Word Study · Strong's G4163 · Greek
ποιητής
poietes
poy-ay-tace'
Strong's 1890 spelling: poiētḗs
“a performer”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a performer; specially, a "poet";
Rendered in the KJV as
doer, poet.
- 6occurrencesin the New Testament
- 3 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- ποιηταὶ2
- ποιητὴς2
- ποιητής,1
- ποιητῶν1
How it is rendered · 4
- a doer2
- doers2
- a doer,1
- poets1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-NSM · 3
- N-NPM · 2
- N-GPM · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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James4 occurrences
- James 1:22ποιηταὶpoiētainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluralBe doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.here: doers
- James 1:23ποιητής,poiētēsnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singularFor anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,here: a doer,
- James 1:25ποιητὴςpoiētēsnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singularBut 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.here: a doer
- James 4:11ποιητὴςpoiētēsnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singularBrothers, 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.here: a doer