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 Kings 17:41עֹשִׂ֔ים · did
So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
2 Kings 18:3וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did; עָשָׂ֖ה · had done
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
2 Kings 18:4עָשָׂ֣ה · had made
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
2 Kings 18:12עָשֽׂוּ׃פ · obey
This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.
2 Kings 18:31עֲשֽׂוּ־ · Make
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
2 Kings 19:11עָשׂ֜וּ · have done
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
2 Kings 19:15עָשִׂ֔יתָ · made
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
2 Kings 19:25עָשִׂ֔יתִי · I ordained
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
2 Kings 19:30וְעָשָׂ֥ה · and bear
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
2 Kings 19:31תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־ · will accomplish
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
2 Kings 20:3עָשִׂ֑יתִי · I have done
“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
2 Kings 20:9יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה · will do
And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
2 Kings 20:20עָשָׂ֗ה · he constructed
As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:2וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:3וַיַּ֤עַשׂ · He made; עָשָׂ֗ה · had done
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 21:6וְעָ֥שָׂה · and consulted; לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · He did
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
2 Kings 21:7עָשָׂ֑ה · he had made
Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
2 Kings 21:8לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת · to do
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
2 Kings 21:9לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · so that they did
But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:11עָשָׂ֜ה · has committed; עָשׂ֥וּ
“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
2 Kings 21:15עָשׂ֤וּ · they have done
…because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
2 Kings 21:16לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · doing
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 21:17עָשָׂ֔ה
As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:20וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did; עָשָׂ֖ה · had done
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
2 Kings 21:25עָשָׂ֑ה
As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 22:2וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
2 Kings 22:5עֹשֵׂ֣י · of those doing; לְעֹשֵׂ֤י · to the workmen
And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
2 Kings 22:7עֹשִֽׂים׃ · work
But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
2 Kings 22:9עֹשֵׂ֣י · of the workers
And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
2 Kings 22:13לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת · by doing
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
2 Kings 23:4הָֽעֲשׂוּיִם֙ · made
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:12עָשׂ֣וּ׀ · had set up; עָשָׂ֣ה · had set up
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 23:15עָשָׂ֜ה · set up
He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
2 Kings 23:17עָשִׂ֔יתָ · you have done
Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
2 Kings 23:19עָשׂ֜וּ · set up; וַיַּ֣עַשׂ · Just as Josiah; עָשָׂ֖ה · had done
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 23:21עֲשׂ֣וּ · Keep
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
2 Kings 23:22נַֽעֲשָׂה֙ · had been observed
No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Kings 23:23נַעֲשָׂ֞ה · was observed
But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:28עָשָׂ֑ה
As for the rest of the acts of Josiah and all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 23:32וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · And he did; עָשׂ֖וּ · had done
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.