Dictionaries :: Poet

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Poet:

po'-et (poietes, "a maker"): Occurs in this sense only in Ac 17:28, where Paul quotes from the general expression of Greek mythology. The quotation if intended to be exact is probably from Aratus, as the words of Paul in his speech at Athens precisely agree with the opening words of the Phaenomena by Aratus. A similar but not identical expression is found in the Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes. Aratus in his poem endeavors to posit Jupiter as the father and controller of all things, and worthy to be worshipped. In both his poem and that of Cleanthes, but especially in the latter, there is a true and lofty note of spiritual devotion. Paul takes this praise and devotion offered by the Greek poets to their unknown or fictitious gods and bestows it upon the one true God whom he declared unto the people of Athens.

Written by C. E. Schenk

Nave's Topical Bible

Poet: Greek

Act 17:28; Tts 1:12

Poet: References Concerning

See POETRY; PSALMS; SONGS

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Poet:

primarily, "a maker," later "a doer" (poieo "to make, to do"), was used, in classical Greek, of "an author," especially a "poet;" so Act 17:28.
See DOER.