Original Word: δημιουργός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: démiourgos
Phonetic Spelling: (day-me-oor-gos')
Short Definition: an artisan, builder
Definition: an artisan, builder, maker; one who labors for the public.

Cognate: 1217 dēmiourgós (from 1218 /dḗmos, "a unified group of people" and 2014 /epiphaínō, "work") – properly, someone working on behalf of a group of people (used only in Heb 11:10). See 1218 (dēmos).

STRONGS NT 1217: δημιουργός

δημιουργός, 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.)

maker.

From demos and ergon; a worker for the people, i.e. Mechanic (spoken of the Creator) -- maker.

see GREEK demos

see GREEK ergon

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