Dictionary entry

ποιητής

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** ποιητής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< ποιέω), [in LXX: I Mac 2:67*;]

1. in cl., a maker, author.

2. Esp., a poet: Ac 17:28.

3. Later, a doer: τ. νόμου, Ro 2:13, Ja 4:11 (I Mac 2:67); ἔργου, Ja 1:25; λόγου, Ja 1:22, 23.†