עָשָׂה
a.sahto make: doHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb2,629 occurrences39 books2,285 verses
Definition
a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Traditional renderings: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Traditional renderings: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָשָׂה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
2,629 total
- Judges 8:2עָשִׂ֥יתִי · have I accomplishedBut Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
- Judges 8:3עֲשׂ֣וֹת · to doGod has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
- Judges 8:27וַיַּעַשׂ֩ · madeFrom all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
- Judges 8:35עָשׂ֣וּ · show; עָשָׂ֖ה · he had doneThey did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
- Judges 9:16עֲשִׂיתֶ֔ם · you have acted; עֲשִׂיתֶם֙ · you have done well; עֲשִׂ֥יתֶם · you have doneNow if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
- Judges 9:19עֲשִׂיתֶ֛ם · you have acted…if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.
- Judges 9:27וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֖וּ · they heldAnd after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
- Judges 9:33וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ · doAnd in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”
- Judges 9:48עָשִׂ֔יתִי · and do; עֲשׂ֥וּ · do…he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
- Judges 9:56עָשָׂה֙ · had doneIn this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
- Judges 10:6לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · didAnd again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
- Judges 10:15עֲשֵׂה־ · Deal“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
- Judges 11:10נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃ · doAnd the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
- Judges 11:27עֹשֶׂ֥ה · have doneI have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:36עֲשֵׂ֣ה · Do; עָשָׂה֩ · has“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:37יֵעָ֥שֶׂה · Let me doShe also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
- Judges 11:39וַיַּ֣עַשׂ · and he didAfter two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
- Judges 13:1לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · didAgain the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
- Judges 13:8נַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה · to raiseThen Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
- Judges 13:15וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה · and we will prepare“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
- Judges 13:16תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה · you prepareAnd the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
- Judges 13:19לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת · the LORD didThen Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
- Judges 14:6עָשָֽׂה׃ · he had done…and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
- Judges 14:10וַיַּ֨עַשׂ · prepared; יַעֲשׂ֖וּ · was customaryThen his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- Judges 15:3עֹשֶׂ֥ה · in doingSamson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
- Judges 15:6עָ֣שָׂה · did“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
- Judges 15:7תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן · you have doneAnd Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
- Judges 15:10לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · and pay him back; עָ֥שָׂה · he has done“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
- Judges 15:11עָשִׂ֣יתָ · have you done; עָ֣שׂוּ · I have done; עָשִׂ֥יתִי · they didIn response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- Judges 16:11נַעֲשָׂ֥ה · been usedHe replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- Judges 17:3לַֽעֲשׂוֹת֙ · to makeAnd when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
- Judges 17:4וַֽיַּעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ · who made themSo he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
- Judges 17:5וַיַּ֤עַשׂ · and he madeNow this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
- Judges 17:6יַעֲשֶֽׂה׃פ · did [what was]In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 17:8לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · And as he traveledThis man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Judges 18:3עֹשֶׂ֛ה · doingAnd while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
- Judges 18:4עָ֥שָׂה · has done“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
- Judges 18:14תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃ · you should doThen the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
- Judges 18:18עֹשִֽׂים׃ · doingWhen they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
- Judges 18:24עָשִׂ֨יתִי · I had madeHe replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
- Judges 18:27עָשָׂ֣הAfter they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.