What is the Strong's number for Poieo?

The Strong's number for Poieo (ποιέω) is G4160. It is a Greek word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Poieo (Strong’s G4160): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Poieo mean?

Poieo (ποιέω, Strong's G4160) is a Greek word. Strong's defines it as to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct). The King James Bible translates it as 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.

Poieo (ποιέω) is the Greek word numbered G4160 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct). In the King James Bible it is translated abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together.

ποιέω

poiéō · Greek

Strong’s G4160 · poy-eh'-o

Original wordποιέω
Transliterationpoiéō
Pronunciationpoy-eh'-o
Strong’s numberG4160
LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

Derivation. apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;

How the King James Bible translates it

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.

Where Poieo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Poieo (G4160) stands behind 603 English renderings in 511 verses across 26 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in John (111), Luke (98), Matthew (94).

How the King James Bible renders Poieo, by count

do141 of 603 (23 percent)
did47 of 603 (8 percent)
made43 of 603 (7 percent)
make41 of 603 (7 percent)
done33 of 603 (5 percent)
doeth32 of 603 (5 percent)

Three places to read Poieo

Matthew 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Luke 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Acts 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Poieo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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