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

Isaiah 33:13עָשִׂ֑יתִי · I have done
You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
Isaiah 36:16עֲשֽׂוּ־ · 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,
Isaiah 37:11עָשׂ֜וּ · 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?
Isaiah 37:16עָשִׂ֔יתָ · made
“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
Isaiah 37:26עָשִׂ֔יתִי · I ordained it
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.
Isaiah 37:31וְעָשָׂ֥ה · and bear
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
Isaiah 37:32תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־ · 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.
Isaiah 38:3עָשִׂ֑יתִי · I have done
…saying, “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.
Isaiah 38:7יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה · will do
This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
Isaiah 38:15עָשָׂ֑ה · has done this
What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Isaiah 40:23עָשָֽׂה׃ · and makes
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 41:4וְעָשָׂ֔ה · and carried it out
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
Isaiah 41:20עָ֣שְׂתָה · has done
…so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
Isaiah 42:16עֲשִׂיתִ֖ם · I will do for them
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 43:7עֲשִׂיתִֽיו׃ · [and] made
…everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Isaiah 43:19עֹשֶׂ֤ה · I am about to do
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 44:2עֹשֶׂ֛ךָ · your Maker
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:13יַעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ · he shapes; וַֽיַּעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ · He fashions it
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
Isaiah 44:15עָשָׂ֥הוּ · he makes
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
Isaiah 44:17עָשָׂ֖ה · he makes
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
Isaiah 44:19אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה · Shall I make
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
Isaiah 44:23עָשָׂ֣ה · has done this
Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
Isaiah 44:24עֹ֣שֶׂה · who has made
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
Isaiah 45:7עֹשֶׂ֥ה · I bring; עֹשֶׂ֥ה · do
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:9תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה · are you making
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Isaiah 45:12עָשִׂ֣יתִי · who made
It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
Isaiah 45:18וְעֹשָׂהּ֙ · and fashioned it
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Isaiah 46:4עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙ · have made you
Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
Isaiah 46:6וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣הוּ · to fashion it
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
Isaiah 46:10נַעֲשׂ֑וּ · to come; אֶעֱשֶֽׂה׃ · I will accomplish
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Isaiah 46:11אֶעֱשֶֽׂנָּה׃ס · do it
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
Isaiah 48:3עָשִׂ֖יתִי · I acted
I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
Isaiah 48:5עָשָׂ֔ם · has done this
Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
Isaiah 48:11אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה · I will act
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
Isaiah 48:14יַעֲשֶׂ֤ה · will carry out
Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 51:13עֹשֶׂ֗ךָ · your Maker
But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 53:9עָשָׂ֔ה · He had done
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Isaiah 54:5עֹשַׂ֔יִךְ · is your Maker
For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 55:11עָשָׂה֙ · it will accomplish
…so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
Isaiah 56:1וַעֲשׂ֣וּ · and do
This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
Isaiah 56:2יַעֲשֶׂה־ · who does; מֵעֲשׂ֥וֹת · from doing
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Isaiah 57:16עָשִֽׂיתִי׃ · have made
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
Isaiah 58:2עָשָׂ֗ה · does
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Isaiah 58:13עֲשׂ֥וֹת · from doing; מֵעֲשׂ֣וֹת · by not going
If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
Isaiah 63:12לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · to gain
…who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,