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
- 1 Kings 8:49וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ · and may You uphold…then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:59לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת׀ · so that He may upholdAnd may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
- 1 Kings 8:64עָ֣שָׂה · he offeredOn that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
- 1 Kings 8:65וַיַּ֣עַשׂ · keptSo at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
- 1 Kings 8:66עָשָׂ֤ה · had doneOn the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
- 1 Kings 9:1לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ · and had achievedNow when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
- 1 Kings 9:4לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת · doingAnd as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
- 1 Kings 9:8עָשָׂ֤ה · doneAnd when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- 1 Kings 9:23הָעֹשִׂ֖ים · who didThey were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
- 1 Kings 9:26עָשָׂה֩ · also assembledKing Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
- 1 Kings 10:9לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · to carry outBlessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- 1 Kings 10:12וַיַּ֣עַשׂ · madeThe king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
- 1 Kings 10:16וַיַּ֨עַשׂ · madeKing Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
- 1 Kings 10:18וַיַּ֧עַשׂ · madeAdditionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 1 Kings 10:20נַעֲשָׂ֥ה · had ever been madeTwelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
- 1 Kings 11:6וַיַּ֧עַשׂ · didSo Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
- 1 Kings 11:8עָשָׂ֔ה · He didHe did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:12אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּה · doNevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 11:28עֹשֵׂ֤הNow Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
- 1 Kings 11:33לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת · nor doneFor they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- 1 Kings 11:38וְעָשִׂ֨יתָ · and do; עָשָׂ֖ה · didIf you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
- 1 Kings 11:41עָשָׂ֖ה · he didAs for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
- 1 Kings 12:21עֹשֵׂ֣הAnd when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:27לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת · to offerIf these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
- 1 Kings 12:28וַיַּ֕עַשׂ · madeAfter seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
- 1 Kings 12:31וַיַּ֖עַשׂ · Jeroboam also built; וַיַּ֤עַשׂ · and appointedJeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
- 1 Kings 12:32וַיַּ֣עַשׂ · ordained; עָשָׂה֙ · he made; עָשָׂ֑ה · he had set up; עָשָֽׂה׃ · he had set upAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
- 1 Kings 12:33עָשָׂ֣ה · he had set up; וַיַּ֤עַשׂ · So he ordainedOn the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
- 1 Kings 13:11עָשָׂה֩ · had doneNow a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
- 1 Kings 13:33וַיַּ֜עַשׂ · he appointedEven after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
- 1 Kings 14:4וַתַּ֤עַשׂ · didJeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
- 1 Kings 14:8לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת · doingI tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
- 1 Kings 14:9לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת · You have done; וַתַּעֲשֶׂה־ · to makeYou have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- 1 Kings 14:15עָשׂוּ֙ · they have madeFor the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 1 Kings 14:22וַיַּ֧עַשׂ · did; עָשׂ֣וּ · had doneAnd Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
- 1 Kings 14:24עָשׂ֗וּ · They imitatedThere were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 14:26עָשָׂ֖ה · had madeHe seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
- 1 Kings 14:27וַיַּ֨עַשׂ · madeThen King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
- 1 Kings 14:29עָשָׂ֑ה · he didAs for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 15:3עָשָׂ֣ה · had committedAnd Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
- 1 Kings 15:5עָשָׂ֥ה · had doneFor David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- 1 Kings 15:7עָשָׂ֔הAs for the rest of the acts of Abijam, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.