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
- Isaiah 63:14לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת · to makeLike cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
- Isaiah 64:3בַּעֲשׂוֹתְךָ֥ · When You didWhen You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
- Isaiah 64:4יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה · who actsFrom ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
- Isaiah 64:5וְעֹ֣שֵׂה · doYou welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
- Isaiah 65:8אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ · I will actThis is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.
- Isaiah 65:12וַתַּעֲשׂ֤וּ · you didI will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- Isaiah 66:2עָשָׂ֔תָה · madeHas not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
- Isaiah 66:4וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ · But they didSo I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- Isaiah 66:22עֹשֶׂ֛ה · will make“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
- Jeremiah 1:12לַעֲשֹׂתֽוֹ׃פ · to accomplish it“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
- Jeremiah 2:13עָשָׂ֣ה · have committed“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 2:17תַּעֲשֶׂה־ · broughtHave you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 2:23עָשִׂ֑ית · you have done“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
- Jeremiah 2:28עָשִׂ֣יתָ · you madeBut where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
- Jeremiah 3:5וַתַּעֲשִׂ֥י · but you keep doingWill He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
- Jeremiah 3:6עָשְׂתָ֖ה · has doneNow in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- Jeremiah 3:7עֲשׂוֹתָ֧הּ · she had doneI thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
- Jeremiah 3:16יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה · be made“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
- Jeremiah 4:18עָשׂ֥וֹ · have brought“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
- Jeremiah 4:27אֶעֱשֶֽׂה׃For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
- Jeremiah 4:30תַּעֲשִׂ֗י · what will you doAnd you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- Jeremiah 5:1עֹשֶׂ֥ה · [anyone] who acts“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
- Jeremiah 5:10תַּעֲשׂ֑וּGo up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:13יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה · befallThe prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
- Jeremiah 5:18אֶעֱשֶׂ֥ה · make“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
- Jeremiah 5:19עָשָׂ֨ה · doneAnd when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
- Jeremiah 5:31תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ · will you doThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Jeremiah 6:13עֹ֥שֶׂה · practice“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 6:15עָשׂ֑וּ · they have committedAre they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 6:26עֲשִׂ֣י · as you wouldO daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Jeremiah 7:5עָשׂ֤וֹ · you act; תַֽעֲשׂוּ֙For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 7:10עֲשׂ֔וֹת · we can continue with…and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
- Jeremiah 7:12עָשִׂ֣יתִי · I didBut go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- Jeremiah 7:13עֲשׂוֹתְכֶ֛ם · you have doneAnd now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
- Jeremiah 7:14וְעָשִׂ֜יתִי · I will now do; עָשִׂ֖יתִי · therefore what I did…therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
- Jeremiah 7:17עֹשִׂ֖ים · are doingDo you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
- Jeremiah 7:18לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת · to makeThe sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- Jeremiah 7:30עָשׂ֨וּ · have doneFor the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Jeremiah 8:6עָשִׂ֑יתִי · have I doneI have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- Jeremiah 8:8עָשָׂ֔ה · has producedHow can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
- Jeremiah 8:10עֹ֥שֶׂה · practiceTherefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 8:12עָשׂ֑וּ · they have committedAre they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:7אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה · else can I doTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
- Jeremiah 9:24עֹ֥שֶׂה · who exercisesBut let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 10:12עֹשֵׂ֥ה · [The LORD] madeThe LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Jeremiah 10:13עָשָׂ֔ה · He generatesWhen He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Jeremiah 11:4וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם · and do…which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
- Jeremiah 11:6וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם · and carry them outThen the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.