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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:

John 11:47: "we? for this man doeth many miracles."
John 12:2: "There they made him a supper; and Martha served:"
John 12:2: "There they made him a supper; and Martha served:"
John 12:16: "of him, and that they had done these things unto him."
John 12:18: "him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle."
John 12:37: "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed"
John 13:7: "unto him, What I do thou knowest not now;"
John 13:12: "unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?"
John 13:15: "that ye should do as I have done to you."
John 13:15: "do as I have done to you."
John 13:17: "happy are ye if ye do them."
John 13:27: "Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly."
John 13:27: "unto him, That thou doest, do quickly."
John 14:10: "in me, he doeth the works."
John 14:12: "works that I do shall he do also; and greater"
John 14:12: "that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these"
John 14:12: "shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go"
John 14:13: "in my name, that will I do, that the Father"
John 14:14: "my name, I will do"
John 14:23: "unto him, and make our abode with him."
John 14:31: "Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence."
John 15:5: "without me ye can"
John 15:5: "without me ye can do"
John 15:14: "my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
John 15:15: "knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called"
John 15:21: "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,"
John 15:24: "If I had not done among them the works which"
John 15:24: "which none other man did, they had not had sin: but"
John 16:2: " They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever"
John 16:3: "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the"
John 17:4: "thou gavest me to do."
John 18:18: "and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold:"
John 18:35: "have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?"
John 19:7: "he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
John 19:12: "not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against"
John 19:23: "his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier"
John 19:24: "vesture they did cast lots. These things"
John 19:24: "vesture they did cast lots. These things"
John 20:30: "other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples,"
John 21:25: "other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one,"
Acts 1:1: "former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all"
Acts 1:1: "Jesus began both to do and teach,"
Acts 2:22: "signs, which God did by him in the midst"
Acts 2:36: "assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye"
Acts 2:37: "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
Acts 3:12: "power or holiness we had made this man to walk?"
Acts 4:7: "what name, have ye done this?"
Acts 4:16: "Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed"
Acts 4:24: "Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and"
Acts 4:28: " For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before"









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