ποίημα
work
‘work’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4161 appears in the Book of Romans — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Romans
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.
ποιημα — transliterated poíēma — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “work.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Romans (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Romans 1:20, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G4161 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
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: Things that are made 1×, Workmanship 1×
- American Standard Version: Through the things that are made 1×, Workmanship 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Workmanship 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: By 1×, Things that have been made 1×, Workmanship 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4161 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4161 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4161 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4161 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- that which has been made
- of the works of God as creator
Word origin
Derived from ποιεω (poiéō) (G4160) — to make.
From G4160 ; a product that is fabric (literally or figuratively): - thing that is made workmanship.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4161 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ποίημα poíēma | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 2:10 | 1 |
| ποιήμασιν poiḗmasin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Romans 1:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4161, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ποιημα appears 29 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 6 books.
- 29
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 13:12 ποίημα
- 1 Samuel 8:8 ποίημα
- Ezra 9:13 ποίημα
- Psalms 63:10 ποίημα
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 ποίημα
- Isaiah 29:16 ποίημα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4161) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 13:12 ποίημα Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?
- 1 Samuel 8:8 ποίημα According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
- 1 Samuel 19:4 ποίημα Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you:
- Ezra 9:13 ποίημα After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
- Ezra 16:14 ποίημα
- Psalms 63:10 ποίημα They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
- Psalms 91:5 ποίημα You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;
- Psalms 142:5 ποίημα I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living."
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 ποίημα I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:4 ποίημα I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 ποίημα Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 ποίημα So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 ποίημα He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
- Ecclesiastes 3:17 ποίημα I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
- Ecclesiastes 3:22 ποίημα Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
- Ecclesiastes 4:3 ποίημα Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 ποίημα Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 5:5 ποίημα It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13 ποίημα Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 8:9 ποίημα All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14 ποίημα There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17 ποίημα then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7 ποίημα Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 ποίημα Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 ποίημα As you don't know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don't know the work of God who does all.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14 ποίημα For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
- Isaiah 29:16 ποίημα You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4161) 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.
