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:
Hebrews 6:3: "And this will we do, if God permit."
Hebrews 7:27: "for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up"
Hebrews 8:5: "for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern"
Hebrews 8:9: "to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day"
Hebrews 10:7: "it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God."
Hebrews 10:9: "said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away"
Hebrews 10:36: "need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive"
Hebrews 11:28: "Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,"
Hebrews 12:13: "And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame"
Hebrews 12:27: "removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."
Hebrews 13:6: "fear what man shall do unto me."
Hebrews 13:17: "they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and"
Hebrews 13:19: "But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you"
Hebrews 13:21: "in every good work to do his will, working"
Hebrews 13:21: "work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing"
James 2:8: "neighbor as thyself, ye do well:"
James 2:12: "speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by"
James 2:13: "For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and mercy"
James 2:19: "there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also"
James 3:12: "the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?"
James 3:12: "so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."
James 3:18: "in peace of them that make peace."
James 4:13: "such a city, and continue there a year, and"
James 4:15: "we shall live, and do this, or that."
James 4:17: "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him"
James 4:17: "to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
James 5:15: "shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."
1 Peter 2:22: "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in"
1 Peter 3:11: "Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and"
1 Peter 3:12: "the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."
2 Peter 1:10: "the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election"
2 Peter 1:10: "election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:"
2 Peter 1:15: "to have these things always in remembrance."
2 Peter 1:19: "word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light"
1 John 1:6: "darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:"
1 John 1:10: "that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his"
1 John 2:17: "lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth"
1 John 2:29: "ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him."
1 John 3:4: "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin"
1 John 3:4: "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin"
1 John 3:7: "let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as"
1 John 3:8: " He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the"
1 John 3:9: "of God doth not commit sin; for his seed"
1 John 3:10: "of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not"
1 John 3:22: "we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight."
1 John 5:10: "he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth"
3 John 1:5: "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the"
3 John 1:6: "whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:"
3 John 1:10: "I will remember his deeds which he doth, prating against us with malicious"
Jude 1:3: "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the"
