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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. Esther 5:8אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה · Then I will answer
    If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
  2. Esther 5:12עָשָׂ֖תָה · she prepared
    “What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
  3. Esther 5:14יַֽעֲשׂוּ־ · Have them build; וַיַּ֥עַשׂ · constructed
    His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
  4. Esther 6:3נַּעֲשָׂ֞ה · has been bestowed; נַעֲשָׂ֥ה · has been done
    The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
  5. Esther 6:6לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת · should be done; לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · to honor
    Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
  6. Esther 6:9יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה · is done
    Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
  7. Esther 6:10וַֽעֲשֵׂה־ · and do
    “Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
  8. Esther 6:11יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה · is done
    So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
  9. Esther 6:14עָשְׂתָ֥ה · had prepared
    While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
  10. Esther 7:2וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃ · it will be fulfilled
    …and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
  11. Esther 7:5לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · devise
    Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
  12. Esther 7:9עָשָׂ֪ה · had it built
    Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
  13. Esther 9:1לְהֵעָשׂ֑וֹת · were to be executed
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  14. Esther 9:3וְעֹשֵׂ֤י · administrators
    And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
  15. Esther 9:5וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ · and they did
    The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
  16. Esther 9:12עָשׂ֑וּ · have they done; וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃ · It will be fulfilled
    …who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
  17. Esther 9:13לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת · to carry out
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
  18. Esther 9:14לְהֵֽעָשׂ֣וֹת · be done
    So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
  19. Esther 9:17וְעָשֹׂ֣ה · making it
    This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
  20. Esther 9:18וְעָשֹׂ֣ה · making
    The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
  21. Esther 9:19עֹשִׂ֗ים · observe
    This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
  22. Esther 9:21עֹשִׂ֗ים · celebration
    …to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
  23. Esther 9:22לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת · [He wrote] that these were to be
    …as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
  24. Esther 9:23לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת · the custom
    So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
  25. Esther 9:27עֹשִׂ֗ים · to celebrate
    …the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
  26. Esther 9:28וְנַעֲשִׂ֜ים · and celebrated
    These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
  27. Job 1:4וְעָשׂ֣וּ · holding
    Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
  28. Job 1:5יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה · practice
    And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
  29. Job 4:17מֵ֝עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ · than his Maker
    ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
  30. Job 5:9עֹשֶׂ֣ה · [the One] who does
    …the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
  31. Job 5:12תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה · find
    He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
  32. Job 9:9עֹֽשֶׂה־ · He is the Maker
    He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
  33. Job 9:10עֹשֶׂ֣ה · He does
    He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
  34. Job 9:12תַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃ · are You doing
    If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
  35. Job 10:8וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִי · formed me
    Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  36. Job 10:9עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי · You molded me
    Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
  37. Job 10:12עָשִׂ֣יתָ · You have granted
    You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
  38. Job 12:9עָ֣שְׂתָה · has done
    Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
  39. Job 13:20תַּ֣עַשׂ · grant
    Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
  40. Job 14:5עָ֝שִׂ֗יתָ · and since You have set
    Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
  41. Job 14:9וְעָשָׂ֖ה · and put forth
    …at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
  42. Job 15:27וַיַּ֖עַשׂ · bulges
    Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
  43. Job 21:31עָ֝שָׂ֗ה · has done
    Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
  44. Job 23:9בַּעֲשֹׂת֣וֹ · When He is at work
    When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.
  45. Job 23:13וַיָּֽעַשׂ׃ · He does
    But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
  46. Job 25:2עֹשֶׂ֥ה · He establishes
    “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.