poiētēs · doer, poet

What it means

poiētēs (ποιητής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “doer, poet”.

Doer, maker: someone who puts something into practice; also a poet.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person who composes verse, like the Greek writers.
2. One who puts the word or the law into practice.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• doer ×3
• doers ×2
• poets ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• James×4

• Acts 17:28

  For in him we live and move and are, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

• Romans 2:13

  For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared righteous.

• James 1:22

  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

• James 1:23

  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking closely at the face he was born with in a mirror;

• James 1:25

  But the one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and remains in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be happy in his doing.

• James 4:11

  Do not speak against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.