עָשָׂה

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.

In the Greek Old Testament

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

ποιέωpoieō“to do/make: do”95%
γίνομαιginomai“to be”1%

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,629 total

2 Samuel 12:5הָעֹשֶׂ֥ה · who did
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
2 Samuel 12:6עָשָׂה֙ · he has done
Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
2 Samuel 12:9לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · by doing
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 12:12עָשִׂ֣יתָ · have acted; אֶעֱשֶׂה֙ · will do
You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
2 Samuel 12:18וְעָשָׂ֥ה · He may even harm himself
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
2 Samuel 12:21עָשִׂ֑יתָה · you have done
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
2 Samuel 12:31יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה · He did
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 13:2לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · to do
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
2 Samuel 13:5וְעָשְׂתָ֤ה · Let her prepare
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
2 Samuel 13:7וַעֲשִׂי־ · and prepare
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
2 Samuel 13:10עָשָׂ֔תָה · she had made
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
2 Samuel 13:12יֵֽעָשֶׂ֥ה · be done; תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה · do
“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
2 Samuel 13:16עָשִׂ֥יתָ · you have already done
“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
2 Samuel 13:29וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֞וּ · did
So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
2 Samuel 14:15יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה · will grant
Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
2 Samuel 14:20עָשָׂ֛ה · has done
Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
2 Samuel 14:21עָשִׂ֖יתִי · I hereby grant
Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
2 Samuel 14:22עָשָׂ֥ה · has granted
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
2 Samuel 15:1וַיַּ֤עַשׂ · provided for
Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
2 Samuel 15:6וַיַּ֨עַשׂ · did
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:26יַֽעֲשֶׂה־ · let Him do
But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
2 Samuel 16:10עָשִׂ֥יתָה · did you do
But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
2 Samuel 16:20נַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃ · should we do
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give me counsel. What should we do?”
2 Samuel 17:6הֲנַעֲשֶׂ֖ה · Should we carry it out
So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
2 Samuel 17:23נֶעֶשְׂתָה֮ · been followed
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
2 Samuel 18:4אֶעֱשֶׂ֑ה · I will do
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel 18:13עָשִׂ֤יתִי · I had jeopardized
If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”
2 Samuel 19:13יַֽעֲשֶׂה־
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
2 Samuel 19:18וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · and to do
…and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
2 Samuel 19:24עָשָׂ֨ה · cared; עָשָׂ֣ה · trimmed
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
2 Samuel 19:27וַעֲשֵׂ֥ה · so do
…and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
2 Samuel 19:37וַעֲשֵׂה־ · and do
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
2 Samuel 19:38אֶעֱשֶׂה־ · will do; אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־ · and I will do
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
2 Samuel 21:3אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה · shall I do
So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
2 Samuel 21:4אֶעֱשֶׂ֥ה · I will do
The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.
2 Samuel 21:11עָשְׂתָ֛ה · had done
When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
2 Samuel 21:14וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ · they had done
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
2 Samuel 22:51וְעֹֽשֶׂה־ · He shows
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
2 Samuel 23:10וַיַּ֧עַשׂ · brought about
…but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
2 Samuel 23:12וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · brought about
But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.
2 Samuel 23:17מֵעֲשֹׂ֣תִי · to do; עָשׂ֔וּ · were the exploits
…saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:22עָשָׂ֔ה · were the exploits
These were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who won a name along with the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 24:10עָשִׂ֔יתִי · I have done
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
2 Samuel 24:12וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־ · and I will carry it out
“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
2 Samuel 24:17עָשׂ֑וּ · have they done
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”