ποι-ητής G4163
doer, one who does/performs; poet, literary composer
2. poet, literary composer — A poet, one who composes verse; used in Acts 17:28 where Paul quotes Greek poets ('as some of your own poets have said') in his Areopagus speech. This is the original classical Greek meaning of poietes (maker/creator, then poet), preserved in this single NT occurrence. Multilingual translations uniformly shift to a distinct literary/artistic term: Spanish 'poetas' (poets), Hindi 'kaviyon ne' (poets [ergative]), Arabic 'shuaraa'i' (poets, from the Arabic root for poetry), Korean 'siindeuл i' (poets [subject marker]), Swahili 'washairi' (poets, from Arabic 'shair'). The cross-linguistic evidence is unanimous in distinguishing this from the ethical 'doer' sense, using dedicated literary vocabulary in every target language. 1×
AR["شُعَراءِ"]·ben["কবিদের"]·DE["ποιητῶν"]·EN["poets"]·FR["auteur"]·heb["מְשׁוֹרְרֵיכֶם"]·HI["कवियों-ने"]·ID["penyair-penyair"]·IT["fattore"]·jav["pujangga"]·KO["시인들이"]·RU["поэтов"]·ES["poetas"]·SW["washairi"]·TR["şairlerinin"]·urd["شاعروں"]
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Senses
1. doer, one who does/performs — A person who carries out or performs an action, especially one who does (or fails to do) the law or the word of God; used in James 1:22-25 ('be doers of the word'), James 4:11, and Romans 2:13 ('doers of the law'). The singular and plural forms represent the same agent-noun sense. Multilingual evidence: Spanish 'hacedor' / 'hacedores' (doer / doers, one who makes or does), Hindi 'karnevaala' / 'karnevaale' (one who does / those who do), Arabic 'aamilan' / 'aamiliin' / 'aamiluu' (a worker-doer / workers-doers), Korean 'haenghaneuн ja' / 'haenghaneuн jadeul' (one who practices / those who practice), Swahili 'mtendaji' / 'watendaji' (doer / doers, agent noun from 'tenda' = to do). S75263 (singular) and S75264 (plural) are inflectional variants of one meaning. 5×
AR["عامِلو","عامِلينَ","عامِلًا"]·ben["কর্মী","পালনকারীরা"]·DE["Taeter"]·EN["a-doer","doers"]·FR["auteur","celui-qui-fait"]·heb["עוֹשִׂי","עוֹשֵׂי","עוֹשֶׂה"]·HI["करनेवाला","करनेवाले"]·ID["pelaku","pelaku,","pelaku-pelaku"]·IT["fattore","poiētai","poiētēs"]·jav["kang-nglampahi","kang-nglampahi,","nindakaken"]·KO["행하는-자,","행하는-자-가","행하는-자들"]·PT["praticante","praticantes"]·RU["делателем","делатель","делатель,","делателями","исполнители"]·ES["hacedor","hacedores"]·SW["mtendaji","watendaji"]·TR["yapanlari","yapıcıları","yapıcısı"]·urd["کرنے-والا","کرنے-والا٬","کرنے-والے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ποι-ητής, οῦ, ὁ, maker, μηχανημάτων Refs 5th c.BC+; ζῴων, of the painter, Refs; inventor, θεῶν Refslawgiver, Refs __2 workman, Refs 3rd c.BC+ __II composer of a poem, author, π. κωμῳδίας Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, poet, Refs 5th c.BC+; Homer was called ὁ π., Refs 5th c.BC+; so also Hesiod, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.b composer of music, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.2 author of a speech, opposed to deliverer of it, π. λόγων Refs 5th c.BC+