Strong's #4160: poieo (pronounced poy-eh'-o)
apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct):--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. Compare 4238.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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poieō
1) to make
1a) with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc.
1b) to be the authors of, the cause
1c) to make ready, to prepare
1d) to produce, bear, shoot forth
1e) to acquire, to provide a thing for one' s self
1f) to make a thing out of something
1g) to (make, i.e.) render one anything
1g1) to (make, i.e.) constitute or appoint one anything, to appoint or ordain one that
1g2) to (make, i.e.) declare one anything
1h) to put one forth, to lead him out
1i) to make one do something
1i1) cause one to
1j) to be the authors of a thing (to cause, bring about)
2) to do
2a) to act rightly, do well
2a1) to carry out, to execute
2b) to do a thing unto one
2b1) to do to one
2c) with designation of time: to pass, spend
2d) to celebrate, keep
2d1) to make ready, and so at the same time to institute, the celebration of the passover
2e) to perform: to a promise
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary
Citing in TDNT: 6:458, 895
Usage:
This word is used 581 times:
2 Corinthians 5:21: "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;"
2 Corinthians 8:10: "who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward"
2 Corinthians 8:11: "therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will,"
2 Corinthians 11:7: " Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,"
2 Corinthians 11:12: "But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion"
2 Corinthians 11:12: "what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire"
2 Corinthians 11:25: "thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;"
2 Corinthians 13:7: "to God that ye do no evil; not"
2 Corinthians 13:7: "approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we"
Galatians 2:10: "the same which I also was forward to do."
Galatians 3:10: "book of the law to do them."
Galatians 3:12: "but, The man that doeth them shall live in them."
Galatians 5:3: "that he is a debtor to do the whole law."
Galatians 5:17: "the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."
Galatians 6:9: "let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap,"
Ephesians 1:16: "to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my"
Ephesians 2:3: "lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh"
Ephesians 2:14: "is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down"
Ephesians 2:15: "of twain one new man, so making peace;"
Ephesians 3:11: "eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our"
Ephesians 3:20: "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all"
Ephesians 4:16: "the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body"
Ephesians 6:6: "as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from"
Ephesians 6:8: "whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive"
Ephesians 6:9: "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing"
Philippians 1:4: "for you all making request with joy,"
Philippians 2:14: " Do all things without murmurings and disputings:"
Philippians 4:14: "Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction."
Colossians 3:17: "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,"
Colossians 3:23: "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as"
Colossians 4:16: "is read among you, cause that it be read also in"
1 Thessalonians 1:2: "for you all, making mention of you in our"
1 Thessalonians 4:10: "And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren"
1 Thessalonians 5:11: "one another, even as also ye do."
1 Thessalonians 5:24: "you, who also will do"
2 Thessalonians 3:4: "you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command"
2 Thessalonians 3:4: "ye both do and will do the things which we command you."
1 Timothy 1:13: "but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
1 Timothy 2:1: "prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;"
1 Timothy 4:16: "continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself,"
1 Timothy 5:21: "these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."
2 Timothy 4:5: "in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy"
Titus 3:5: "righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy"
Philemon 1:4: "I thank my God, making mention of thee always in"
Philemon 1:14: "thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit"
Philemon 1:21: "knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say."
Hebrews 1:2: "by whom also he made the worlds;"
Hebrews 1:3: "power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down"
Hebrews 1:7: "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels"
Hebrews 3:2: "Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in"
