ποιέω
poiéō
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
Lexicon
Derivation: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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
Usage
579 occurrences · 0 OT · 579 NT · 162 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- do74 · 23%
- did27 · 8%
- to do24 · 8%
- make23 · 7%
- doeth20 · 6%
- made18 · 6%
- i do14 · 4%
- he did13 · 4%
- ye do10 · 3%
- done9 · 3%
- shall i do9 · 3%
- had done8 · 3%
- to make6 · 2%
- hath done6 · 2%
- thou doest6 · 2%
- shall we do6 · 2%
- do ye6 · 2%
- doing6 · 2%
- hath made5 · 2%
- bring forth5 · 2%
- making5 · 2%
- he doeth5 · 2%
- should do5 · 2%
- shall do5 · 2%
- forth4 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.