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.
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
Occurrences
246 total
- Isaiah 41:29מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם · their worksSee, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 50:8מִשְׁפָּטִ֖י · has a case against MeThe One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
- Isaiah 54:16לְמַעֲשֵׂ֑הוּ · fit for its taskBehold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
- Isaiah 57:12מַעֲשַׂ֖יִךְ · and your worksI will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
- Isaiah 59:6בְּמַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם · with their works; מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ · Their deeds; מַֽעֲשֵׂי־ · deedsTheir cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
- Isaiah 60:21מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the workThen all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Isaiah 64:8וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the workBut now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Isaiah 65:22וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the workNo longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Isaiah 66:18מַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ · their deeds“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
- Jeremiah 1:16לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥י · the worksI will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
- Jeremiah 7:13הַמַּֽעֲשִׂ֥ים · thingsAnd now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
- Jeremiah 10:3מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · it is shapedFor the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:9מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the work; מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · fashionedHammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
- Jeremiah 10:15מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · a workThey are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 12:1מִשְׁפָּטִים֙ · about [Your] judgmentsRighteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Jeremiah 22:13מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · justice“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Jeremiah 25:6בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · with the worksDo not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
- Jeremiah 25:7בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · with the works‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’
- Jeremiah 25:14וּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · and according to the workFor many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
- Jeremiah 32:30בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · by the workFor the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 44:8בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣י · by the workWhy are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 48:7בְּמַעֲשַׂ֙יִךְ֙ · in your worksBecause you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
- Jeremiah 51:10מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · has accomplished“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Jeremiah 51:18מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · a workThey are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Lamentations 3:64כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · according to the workYou will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
- Lamentations 4:2מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה · the workHow the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- Ezekiel 1:16וּמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ · The workmanship; וּמַ֣עֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם · Their workmanshipThe workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 6:6מַעֲשֵׂיכֶֽם׃ · and your worksWherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- Ezekiel 16:30מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the actsHow weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!
- Ezekiel 27:16מַעֲשָׂ֑יִךְ · productsAram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.
- Ezekiel 27:18מַעֲשַׂ֖יִךְ · productsBecause of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,
- Ezekiel 46:1הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֑ה · of work“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
- Daniel 9:14מַֽעֲשָׂיו֙Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Hosea 13:2מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · the workNow they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- Hosea 14:3לְמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · to the workAssyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Amos 8:7מַעֲשֵׂיהֶֽם׃ · of their deedsThe LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- Jonah 3:10מַ֣עֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם · their actionsWhen God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
- Micah 5:13לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · to the workI will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- Micah 6:16מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · the practicesYou have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- Habakkuk 3:17מַעֲשֵׂה־ · cropThough the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Haggai 2:14מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · workThen Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
- Haggai 2:17מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה · the workI struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.