ποιέω poiéō

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: 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

Derivation: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;

Where it is used

• Luke 16:3 The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
• Luke 16:4 I know what I will do so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
• Luke 16:8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
• Luke 16:9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
• Luke 17:9 Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?
• Luke 17:10 So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
• Luke 18:7 Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?
• Luke 18:8 I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
• Luke 18:18 Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Luke 18:41 “What do you want Me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “let me see again.”
• Luke 19:18 The second servant came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
• Luke 19:46 He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
• Luke 19:48 Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.
• Luke 20:2 “Tell us,” they said, “by what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”
• Luke 20:8 And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
• Luke 20:13 ‘What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’
• Luke 20:15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
• Luke 22:19 And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
• Luke 23:22 A third time he said to them, “What evil has this man done? I have found in Him no offense worthy of death. So after I punish Him, I will release Him.”
• Luke 23:31 For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
• Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
• John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
• John 2:11 Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
• John 2:15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
• John 2:16 To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
• John 2:18 On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
• John 2:23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
• John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• John 3:21 But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
• John 4:1 When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
• John 4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
• John 4:34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
• John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
• John 4:45 Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.
• John 4:46 So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
• John 4:54 This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.
• John 5:11 But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
• John 5:15 And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
• John 5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
• John 5:18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
• John 5:19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
• John 5:20 The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.
• John 5:27 And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
• John 5:29 and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
• John 5:30 I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 5:36 But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
• John 6:2 A large crowd followed Him because they saw the signs He was performing on the sick.
• John 6:6 But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.
• John 6:10 “Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
• John 6:14 When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
• John 6:15 Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
• John 6:28 Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”
• John 6:30 So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?
• John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 7:3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
• John 7:4 For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
• John 7:17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
• John 7:21 Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
• John 7:23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?