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:
Acts 21:33: "he was, and what he had done."
Acts 22:10: "And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord"
Acts 22:10: "which are appointed for thee to do."
Acts 22:26: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is"
Acts 23:12: "certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying"
Acts 23:13: "they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy."
Acts 24:12: "with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in"
Acts 24:17: "many years I came to bring alms to my nation,"
Acts 25:3: "him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way"
Acts 26:10: "Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the"
Acts 27:18: "tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;"
Acts 28:17: "when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I"
Romans 1:9: "Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in"
Romans 1:28: "gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"
Romans 1:32: "of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure"
Romans 2:3: "them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape"
Romans 2:14: "which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,"
Romans 3:8: "affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?"
Romans 3:12: "become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not"
Romans 4:21: "he was able also to perform."
Romans 7:15: "what I hate, that do"
Romans 7:16: "If then I do that which I would not, I consent"
Romans 7:19: "the good that I would I do not: but the evil which"
Romans 7:20: "Now if I do that I would not,"
Romans 7:21: "a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present"
Romans 9:20: "say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?"
Romans 9:21: "the same lump to make one vessel unto"
Romans 9:28: "a short work will the Lord make upon the earth."
Romans 10:5: "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them."
Romans 12:20: "give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire"
Romans 13:3: "be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise"
Romans 13:4: "good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth"
Romans 13:14: "Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh,"
Romans 15:26: "them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the"
Romans 16:17: "you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary"
1 Corinthians 5:2: "rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from"
1 Corinthians 6:15: "the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid."
1 Corinthians 6:18: "sin that a man doeth is without the"
1 Corinthians 7:36: "and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "that he will keep his virgin, doeth well."
1 Corinthians 7:38: "So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage"
1 Corinthians 7:38: "doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better."
1 Corinthians 9:23: "And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be"
1 Corinthians 10:13: "the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear"
1 Corinthians 10:31: "drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory"
1 Corinthians 10:31: "or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
1 Corinthians 11:24: "which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."
1 Corinthians 11:25: "my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in"
1 Corinthians 15:29: "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if"
1 Corinthians 16:1: "of Galatia, even so do ye."
