ποιέω
to make
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Optative
- Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4160 appears in the Book of Revelation — 26 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation
- Revelation 1:6 ἐποίησεν aor act ind 3sg and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Revelation 2:5 ποίησον aor act impv 2sg Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Revelation 3:9 ποιήσω fut act ind 1sg Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
- Revelation 3:12 ποιήσω fut act ind 1sg He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Revelation 5:10 ἐποίησας aor act ind 2sg And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."
- Revelation 11:7 ποιήσει fut act ind 3sg When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
- Revelation 12:15 ποιήσῃ aor act subj 3sg The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
- Revelation 12:17 ποιῆσαι aor act inf The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
- Revelation 13:5 ποιῆσαι aor act inf A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
- Revelation 13:7 ποιῆσαι aor act inf It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
- Revelation 13:12 ποιεῖ ποιεῖ pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
- Revelation 13:13 ποιεῖ ποιῇ pres act ind 3sg pres act subj 3sg He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
- Revelation 13:14 ποιῆσαι ποιῆσαι aor act inf aor act inf He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
- Revelation 13:15 ποιήσῃ aor act subj 3sg It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
- Revelation 13:16 ποιεῖ pres act ind 3sg He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
- Revelation 14:7 ποιήσαντι aor act ptcp dat sg masc He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!"
- Revelation 16:14 ποιοῦντα pres act ptcp nom pl neut for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
- Revelation 17:16 ποιήσουσιν fut act ind 3pl The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
- Revelation 17:17 ποιῆσαι ποιῆσαι aor act inf aor act inf For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
- Revelation 19:19 ποιῆσαι aor act inf I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
- Revelation 19:20 ποιήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Revelation 21:5 ποιῶ pres act ind 1sg He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
- Revelation 21:27 ποιῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
- Revelation 22:2 ποιῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Revelation 22:11 ποιησάτω aor act impv 3sg He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still."
- Revelation 22:15 ποιῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ποιεω — transliterated poiéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to make.” “doeth” is the historic King James Version rendering; modern versions use “do.” See the renderings breakdown. Spanning 514 verses in 26 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 1:24, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 15 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4160 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 514
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 514 distinct verses.
- 26 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
- #34
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 34 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 514 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 514 distinct verses.
- Gospels 294 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 145 verses · 28%
- Johannine 138 verses · 27%
- Pauline corpus 78 verses · 15%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 33 verses · 6%
- Revelation 26 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 18 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Do 100×, Make 31×, Did 30×
- American Standard Version: Do 105×, Make 33×, Did 31×
- Berean Standard Bible: Do 83×, Make 22×, Did 17×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Do 109×, Make 36×, Doing 32×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4160 across 586 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 110 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4160 across 583 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 123 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4160 across 544 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 163 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 9 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4160 across 624 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 105 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
15 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order
The 15 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc.
- to be the authors of, the cause
- to make ready, to prepare
- to produce, bear, shoot forth
- to acquire, to provide a thing for one's self
- to make a thing out of something
- to (make i.e.) render one anything
- to put one forth, to lead him out
- to make one do something
- to be the authors of a thing (to cause, bring about)
This word has an unusually long lexicon entry — 15 senses across its verb stems. The first 10 are shown above in lexicon order; the remaining 5 senses (more of the same, repeated under each stem) and the full sub-sense tree are in the Lexicon Entry tab.
Word origin
Origin: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary
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 G4238 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 77 distinct written forms G4160 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 17 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4160, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ποιεω appears 2,711 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2,345 verses in 38 books.
- 2,711
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2,345
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:1 ποιέω
- Exodus 1:17 ποιέω
- Leviticus 2:7 ποιέω
- Numbers 1:54 ποιέω
- Deuteronomy 1:14 ποιέω
- Joshua 1:7 ποιέω
- Judges 1:7 ποιέω
- Ruth 1:8 ποιέω
- 1 Samuel 1:7 ποιέω
- 2 Samuel 2:5 ποιέω
- 1 Kings 1:5 ποιέω
- 2 Kings 1:18 ποιέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4160) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 2,345. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:1 ποιέω In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:7 ποιέω God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11 ποιέω God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 ποιέω The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:16 ποιέω God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:21 ποιέω God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:25 ποιέω God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 ποιέω God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27 ποιέω God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:31 ποιέω God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:2 ποιέω On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 ποιέω God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:4 ποιέω This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:18 ποιέω Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 3:1 ποιέω Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:7 ποιέω Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:13 ποιέω Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:14 ποιέω Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:21 ποιέω Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
- Genesis 4:10 ποιέω Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 5:1 ποιέω This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
- Genesis 5:2 ποιέω He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 6:6 ποιέω Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 6:7 ποιέω Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:14 ποιέω Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Genesis 6:15 ποιέω This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 6:16 ποιέω You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
- Genesis 6:22 ποιέω Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
- Genesis 7:4 ποιέω In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 7:5 ποιέω Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
- Genesis 8:6 ποιέω It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 8:13 ποιέω It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 8:21 ποιέω Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:6 ποιέω Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 9:24 ποιέω Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
- Genesis 11:4 ποιέω They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:6 ποιέω Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 12:2 ποιέω I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 12:18 ποιέω Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 13:4 ποιέω to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 13:16 ποιέω I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 14:2 ποιέω that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
- Genesis 18:5 ποιέω I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
- Genesis 18:6 ποιέω Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
- Genesis 18:7 ποιέω Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
- Genesis 18:8 ποιέω He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
- Genesis 18:17 ποιέω Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
- Genesis 18:19 ποιέω For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 18:25 ποιέω Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Genesis 19:3 ποιέω He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4160) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
