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.

In the Greek Old Testament

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

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,629 total
  1. 1 Kings 22:45עָשָׂ֖ה · he exercised
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, along with the might he exercised and how he waged war, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  2. 1 Kings 22:52וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
  3. 1 Kings 22:53עָשָׂ֖ה · had done
    Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
  4. 2 Kings 1:18עָשָׂ֑ה
    As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  5. 2 Kings 2:9אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־ · can I do
    After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
  6. 2 Kings 3:2וַיַּעֲשֶׂ֤ה · And he did; עָשָׂ֖ה · had made
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
  7. 2 Kings 3:16עָשֹׂ֛ה · Dig
    …and he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Dig this valley full of ditches.’
  8. 2 Kings 4:2אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־ · can I
    “How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
  9. 2 Kings 4:10נַֽעֲשֶׂה־ · let us make
    Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
  10. 2 Kings 4:13לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · can we do
    …and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
  11. 2 Kings 4:14לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · should be done
    So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
  12. 2 Kings 5:13תַעֲשֶׂ֑ה · have done [it]
    Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”
  13. 2 Kings 5:17יַעֲשֶׂה֩ · make
    “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
  14. 2 Kings 6:2וְנַעֲשֶׂה־ · so we can build
    Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
  15. 2 Kings 6:15נַֽעֲשֶֽׂה׃ · are we to do
    When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
  16. 2 Kings 6:31יַעֲשֶׂה־
    He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”
  17. 2 Kings 7:2עֹשֶׂ֤ה · were to make
    But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
  18. 2 Kings 7:9עֹשִׂ֗ים · doing
    Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
  19. 2 Kings 7:12עָ֥שׂוּ · have done
    So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
  20. 2 Kings 7:19עֹשֶׂ֤ה · were to make
    And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
  21. 2 Kings 8:2וַתַּ֕עַשׂ · to do
    So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
  22. 2 Kings 8:4עָשָׂ֥ה · has done
    Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
  23. 2 Kings 8:12תַּעֲשֶׂה֩ · you will do
    “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
  24. 2 Kings 8:13יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה · do
    “But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
  25. 2 Kings 8:18עָשׂוּ֙ · had done; וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · and did
    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  26. 2 Kings 8:23עָשָׂ֑ה
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoram, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  27. 2 Kings 8:27וַיַּ֧עַשׂ · and did
    And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  28. 2 Kings 10:5נַעֲשֶׂ֑ה · and we will do; עֲשֵֽׂה׃ · Do
    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
  29. 2 Kings 10:10עָשָׂ֔ה · has done
    Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
  30. 2 Kings 10:19עָשָׂ֣ה · was acting
    Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
  31. 2 Kings 10:24לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת · to offer
    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
  32. 2 Kings 10:25לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · making
    When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
  33. 2 Kings 10:30לַעֲשׂ֤וֹת · in carrying out; עָשִׂ֖יתָ · and have done
    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  34. 2 Kings 10:34עָשָׂ֖ה
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehu, along with all his accomplishments and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  35. 2 Kings 11:5תַּעֲשׂ֑וּן · you are to do
    …and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,
  36. 2 Kings 11:9וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֞וּ · did
    So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.
  37. 2 Kings 12:2וַיַּ֨עַשׂ · did
    And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
  38. 2 Kings 12:11עֹשֵׂ֣י · of those who; הָעֹשִׂ֖ים · those doing the work
    Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders,
  39. 2 Kings 12:13יֵעָשֶׂ֜ה · making
    However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
  40. 2 Kings 12:14לְעֹשֵׂ֥י · to those doing
    Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
  41. 2 Kings 12:15לְעֹשֵׂ֣י · the workmen; עֹשִֽׂים׃ · acted
    No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.
  42. 2 Kings 12:19עָשָׂ֑ה
    As for the rest of the acts of Joash, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  43. 2 Kings 13:2וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
  44. 2 Kings 13:8עָשָׂ֖ה
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, along with all his accomplishments and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?