Lexical Summary
agathopoiia: Doing good, well-doing
Original Word: ἀγαθοποιΐα
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: agathopoiia
Pronunciation: ag-ath-op-oy-EE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ath-op-oy-ee'-ah)
KJV: well-doing
NASB: doing what, doing what is right
Word Origin: [from G17 (ἀγαθοποιός - One who does good)]
1. well-doing, i.e. virtue
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
well-doing.
From agathopoios; well-doing, i.e. Virtue -- well-doing.
see GREEK agathopoios
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 16 agathopoiía (from 15 /agathopoiéō, "do what is intrinsically good") – properly, well-doing; what is constitutionally (inherently) good, i.e. what originates from faith (4102 /pístis, "God's inworked persuasion") and therefore is His work (used only in 1 Pet 4:19). See 18 (agathos).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
agathopoiosDefinitionwelldoing
NASB Translationdoing what (1), doing what is right (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 16: ἀγαθοποιΐᾳἀγαθοποιΐᾳ (
WH (see Iota)),
(ας,
ἡ,
a course of right action, well-doing:
ἐν ἀγαθοποιΐᾳ,
1 Peter 4:19 equivalent to
ἀγαθοποιοῦντες acting uprightly (cf.
xii. Patr. Jos. § 18); if we read here with
L Tr marginal reading
ἐν ἀγαθοποιΐαις we must understand it of single acts of rectitude (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 27, 3;
Buttmann, § 123, 2). (In ecclesiastical writings
ἀγαθοποιΐᾳ denotes
beneficence.)