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מַעֲשֶׂה

ma.a.sehdeed: workHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine246 occurrences31 books232 verses

Definition

from H6213; an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Traditional renderings: act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מַעֲשֶׂה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

246 total
  1. Psalm 143:5בְּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · the work
    I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
  2. Psalm 145:4מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ · Your works
    One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
  3. Psalm 145:9מַעֲשָֽׂיו׃ · He has made
    The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
  4. Psalm 145:10מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ · You have made
    All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
  5. Psalm 145:17מַעֲשָֽׂיו׃ · His deeds
    The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
  6. Proverbs 13:23מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · justice
    Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
  7. Proverbs 16:3מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ · your works
    Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
  8. Proverbs 16:8מִשְׁפָּֽט׃
    Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
  9. Proverbs 16:11מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ · are His concern
    Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
  10. Proverbs 31:31מַעֲשֶֽׂיהָ׃ · and let her works
    Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.
  11. Ecclesiastes 1:14הַֽמַּעֲשִׂ֔ים · the things
    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
  12. Ecclesiastes 2:4מַעֲשָׂ֑י · my pursuits
    I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
  13. Ecclesiastes 2:11מַעֲשַׂי֙ · the works
    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
  14. Ecclesiastes 2:17הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה · the work
    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  15. Ecclesiastes 3:11הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֛ה · the work
    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
  16. Ecclesiastes 3:17הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה · deed
    I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
  17. Ecclesiastes 3:22בְּֽמַעֲשָׂ֔יו · his work
    I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
  18. Ecclesiastes 4:3הַמַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה
    But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
  19. Ecclesiastes 4:4הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה
    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
  20. Ecclesiastes 5:6מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the work
    Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
  21. Ecclesiastes 7:13מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · the work
    Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
  22. Ecclesiastes 8:9מַעֲשֶׂ֔ה · deed
    All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
  23. Ecclesiastes 8:11מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה
    When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
  24. Ecclesiastes 8:14כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · what the actions; כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · what the actions
    There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
  25. Ecclesiastes 8:17מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · work; הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂה֙ · the work
    I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
  26. Ecclesiastes 9:7מַעֲשֶֽׂיךָ׃ · your works
    Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
  27. Ecclesiastes 9:10מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה · work
    Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  28. Ecclesiastes 11:5מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · the work
    As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
  29. Ecclesiastes 12:14מַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה · deed
    For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
  30. Song of Solomon 7:1מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · the handiwork
    How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
  31. Isaiah 2:8לְמַעֲשֵׂ֤ה · to the work
    Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
  32. Isaiah 3:24מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה · styled
    Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
  33. Isaiah 5:12וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the work
    At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
  34. Isaiah 5:19מַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ · and hasten His work
    …to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
  35. Isaiah 10:12מַֽעֲשֵׂ֔הוּ · His work
    So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
  36. Isaiah 17:8מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · they have fashioned
    They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.
  37. Isaiah 19:14מַעֲשֵׂ֔הוּ · she does
    The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
  38. Isaiah 19:15מַֽעֲשֶׂ֑ה
    There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
  39. Isaiah 19:25וּמַעֲשֵׂ֤ה · My handiwork
    The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
  40. Isaiah 26:12מַעֲשֵׂ֖ינוּ · that we have accomplished
    O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
  41. Isaiah 28:21מַעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ · His work; מַעֲשֵׂ֔הוּ · work
    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
  42. Isaiah 29:15מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם · they do their works
    Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  43. Isaiah 29:16מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה · what is formed
    You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
  44. Isaiah 29:23מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the work
    For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
  45. Isaiah 32:17מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · The work
    The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
  46. Isaiah 34:5לְמִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · to destruction
    When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
  47. Isaiah 37:19מַעֲשֵׂ֧ה · the work
    They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.