Lexical Summary dēmiourgos: builder, maker, creator Original Word: δημιουργόςTransliteration: dēmiourgos Phonetic Spelling: (day-me-oor-gos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: builder, maker, creator Meaning: builder, maker, creator Strong's Concordance maker. From demos and ergon; a worker for the people, i.e. Mechanic (spoken of the Creator) -- maker. see GREEK demos see GREEK ergon Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1217: δημιουργόςδημιουργός, δημιουργου, ὁ (δήμιος, public, belonging to the people, and ἘΡΓΩ; cf. ἱερουργός, ἀμπελουργός, etc.), often in Greek writers from Homer down; a. properly, a workman for the public. b. universally, the author of any work, an artisan, framer, builder: τεχνιτεσς καί δημιουργός, Hebrews 11:10; (Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 7 (cf. 9) σοφοῦ τίνος δημιουργου τέχνημα. God is called ὁ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ δημιουργός in Plato, rep. 7, p. 530 a.; ὁ δημιουργός τῶν ὅλων in Josephus, Antiquities 1, 7, 1, and often in ecclesiastical writers from Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 20, 11 [ET]; 26, 1 [ET]; 33, 2 [ET] on; (cf. Philo, de mut. nom. § 4; de opif. mund., Muller, edition, p. 133; Piper, Einl. in monument. Theol. § 26; Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word). In the Scriptures, besides, only in 2 Macc. 4:1 κακῶν δημιουργός). (Cf. Trench, § cv.) |
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