Demiourgos means “maker” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1217 — batseq (“dough”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1217 δημιουργός (demiourgos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. demiourgos (day-mee-our-gos') n. 1. a worker for the people, i.e. mechanic (spoken of the Creator) [from G1218 and G2041] It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include maker. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
demiourgos (day-mee-our-gos') n. 1. a worker for the people, i.e. mechanic (spoken of the Creator) [from G1218 and G2041] KJV: maker Root(s): G1218, G2041
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1217. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
builder
Usage: δημιουργός, -οῦ, ὑ (δῆμος, ἔργον), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:1 * ;] __1. one who works for the people. __2. Univ., an author, builder, maker; the maker of the world (Xen., Mem., I, 4, 9, al.), Heb.11:10.† SYN.: κτίστης, creator, τεχνίτης, craftsman, designer. In He, l.with, τ. has reference to the plan, δ. to its execution. (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render demiourgos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1217 (δημιουργός) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
This Simon now, of whom we spoke afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, Knoweth himself to offend above all others.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1217.
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
This Simon now, of whom we spoke afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, Knoweth himself to offend above all others.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1217, grouped by book.
Demiourgos (Strong's G1217) is a Greek word most simply glossed "maker". demiourgos (day-mee-our-gos') n. 1. a worker for the people, i.e. mechanic (spoken of the Creator) [from G1218 and G2041]
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G1217 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1217 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as maker. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1217, with linked reader references where each row is available.