What does ποίημα (poíēma) mean in the Bible?
ποίημα (poíēma): Something crafted or made, emphasizing the result of deliberate creative action rather than mere existence
Greek · G4161
ποίημα
Workmanship
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ποίημα G4161
Pronunciation poíēma
What does ποίημα (poíēma) mean in the Bible?
ποίημα (poíēma): Something crafted or made, emphasizing the result of deliberate creative action rather than mere existence
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4161?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include His workmanship (1), workmanship (1).
Where does ποίημα (poíēma) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 1:20. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (1), Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It His workmanship 1× Romans 1:20
workmanship 1× Ephesians 2:10
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Romans 1:20
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Romans 1 Ephesians 1
Source forms
ποίημα 1x poiēma Ephesians 2:10
ποιήμασιν 1x poiēmasin Romans 1:20
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural 1x Romans 1:20
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular 1x Ephesians 2:10
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Something crafted or made, emphasizing the result of deliberate creative action rather than mere existence
Strong's G4161
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Ephesians 2:8-10 Source Gloss
workmanship
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 1:20 Noun Dative Plural Neuter
ποιήμασι poihmasin
a thing made
Read verse Ephesians 2:10 Noun Nominative Singular Neuter
ποίημα, poihma
a thing made
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Dative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Neuter Eph 2:10 1×
Dative · Plural · Neuter Rom 1:20 1×
Selected Scripture Witness
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Biblical Witnesses
Believers as God's created work, fashioned for good works in Christ
Showing 1 selected witness from 2 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
ποίημα is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain