עָשָׂה
to do
also: fashion, accomplish, make fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘do’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be done’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘press’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6213 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 133 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1:5 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
- 1 Kings 1:6 עָשִׂ֑יתָ Qal pf 2ms His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
- 1 Kings 1:30 אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה Qal impf 1cs most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.
- 1 Kings 2:3 תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה Qal impf 2ms and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
- 1 Kings 2:5 עָ֨שָׂה עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:6 וְ/עָשִׂ֖יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
- 1 Kings 2:7 תַּֽעֲשֶׂה Qal impf 2ms But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
- 1 Kings 2:9 תַּֽעֲשֶׂה Qal impf 2ms Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.
- 1 Kings 2:23 יַֽעֲשֶׂה Qal juss 3ms Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- 1 Kings 2:24 עָֽשָׂה Qal pf 3ms Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
- 1 Kings 2:31 עֲשֵׂה֙ Qal impv 2ms The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
- 1 Kings 2:38 יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 3ms Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
- 1 Kings 2:44 עָשִׂ֖יתָ Qal pf 2ms The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head.
- 1 Kings 3:6 עָשִׂ֜יתָ Qal pf 2ms Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 3:12 עָשִׂ֖יתִי Qal pf 1cs behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
- 1 Kings 3:15 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
- 1 Kings 3:28 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
- 1 Kings 5:8 אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ Qal impf 1cs Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5:9 תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 2ms My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
- 1 Kings 5:16 הָ/עֹשִׂ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 6:4 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
- 1 Kings 6:5 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
- 1 Kings 6:12 תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה Qal impf 2ms Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
- 1 Kings 6:23 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:31 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel [and] door-posts were a fifth part [of the wall].
- 1 Kings 6:33 עָשָׂ֛ה Qal pf 3ms So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];
- 1 Kings 7:6 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
- 1 Kings 7:7 עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
- 1 Kings 7:8 יַעֲשֶׂ֤ה Qal impf 3ms His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
- 1 Kings 7:14 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת וַ/יַּ֖עַשׂ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 7:16 עָשָׂ֗ה Qal pf 3ms He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:18 וַ/יַּ֖עַשׂ עָשָׂ֔ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 7:23 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 1 Kings 7:27 וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- 1 Kings 7:37 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
- 1 Kings 7:38 וַ/יַּ֛עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin.
- 1 Kings 7:40 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ לַֽ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ עָשָׂ֛ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Qal pf 3ms Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
- 1 Kings 7:45 עָשָׂ֥ה Qal pf 3ms and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
- 1 Kings 7:48 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;
- 1 Kings 7:51 עָשָׂ֛ה Qal pf 3ms Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 8:32 וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ֙ conj + Qal wpf 2ms then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 1 Kings 8:39 וְ/עָשִׂ֔יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
- 1 Kings 8:43 וְ/עָשִׂ֕יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
- 1 Kings 8:45 וְ/עָשִׂ֖יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:49 וְ/עָשִׂ֖יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
- 1 Kings 8:59 לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
- 1 Kings 8:64 עָ֣שָׂה Qal pf 3ms The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
- 1 Kings 8:65 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
- 1 Kings 8:66 עָשָׂ֤ה Qal pf 3ms On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
- 1 Kings 9:1 לַ/עֲשֽׂוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
- 1 Kings 9:4 לַ/עֲשׂ֕וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
- 1 Kings 9:8 עָשָׂ֤ה Qal pf 3ms Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
- 1 Kings 9:23 הָ/עֹשִׂ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 9:26 עָשָׂה֩ Qal pf 3ms King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 1 Kings 10:9 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.
- 1 Kings 10:12 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.
- 1 Kings 10:16 וַ/יַּ֨עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
- 1 Kings 10:18 וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
- 1 Kings 10:20 נַעֲשָׂ֥ה Niphal pf 3ms Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
- 1 Kings 11:6 וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:8 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:12 אֶעֱשֶׂ֔/נָּה Qal impf 1cs + sfx pers 3fs Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 11:28 עֹשֵׂ֤ה Qal ptcp.act ms cs The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
- 1 Kings 11:33 לַ/עֲשׂ֨וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:38 וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ עָשָׂ֖ה conj + Qal wpf 2ms Qal pf 3ms It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
- 1 Kings 11:41 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
- 1 Kings 12:21 עֹשֵׂ֣ה Qal ptcp.act ms cs When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:27 לַ/עֲשׂ֨וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 12:28 וַ/יַּ֕עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 12:31 וַ/יַּ֖עַשׂ וַ/יַּ֤עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
- 1 Kings 12:32 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ עָשָׂה֙ עָשָׂ֑ה עָשָֽׂה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
- 1 Kings 12:33 עָשָׂ֣ה וַ/יַּ֤עַשׂ Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
- 1 Kings 13:11 עָשָׂה֩ Qal pf 3ms Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.
- 1 Kings 13:33 וַ/יַּ֜עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.
- 1 Kings 14:4 וַ/תַּ֤עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
- 1 Kings 14:8 לַ/עֲשׂ֕וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
- 1 Kings 14:9 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת וַ/תַּעֲשֶׂה prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 2ms but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
- 1 Kings 14:15 עָשׂוּ֙ Qal pf 3cp For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
- 1 Kings 14:22 וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ עָשׂ֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3cp Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
- 1 Kings 14:24 עָשׂ֗וּ Qal pf 3cp and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:26 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
- 1 Kings 14:27 וַ/יַּ֨עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
- 1 Kings 14:29 עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 15:3 עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
- 1 Kings 15:5 עָשָׂ֥ה Qal pf 3ms because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- 1 Kings 15:7 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 15:11 וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 15:12 עָשׂ֖וּ Qal pf 3cp He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 15:13 עָשְׂתָ֥ה Qal pf 3fs Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 15:23 עָשָׂ֗ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 15:26 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
- 1 Kings 15:31 עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 15:34 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
- 1 Kings 16:5 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:7 עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
- 1 Kings 16:14 עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:19 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת עָשָׂ֔ה prep + Qal inf.cs Qal pf 3ms for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
- 1 Kings 16:25 וַ/יַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.
- 1 Kings 16:27 עָשָׂ֔ה עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shown, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:30 וַ/יַּ֨עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.
- 1 Kings 16:33 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ לַ/עֲשׂ֗וֹת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
- 1 Kings 17:5 וַ/יַּ֖עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
- 1 Kings 17:12 וַ/עֲשִׂיתִ֨י/הוּ֙ conj + Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 3ms She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
- 1 Kings 17:13 עֲשִׂ֣י עֲשִׂי תַּעֲשִׂ֖י Qal impv 2fs Qal impv 2fs Qal impf 2fs Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 17:15 וַ/תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
- 1 Kings 18:13 עָשִׂ֔יתִי Qal pf 1cs Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- 1 Kings 18:23 אֶעֱשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 1cs Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
- 1 Kings 18:25 וַ/עֲשׂ֣וּ conj + Qal impv 2mp Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 1 Kings 18:26 וַֽ/יַּעֲשׂוּ֒ עָשָֽׂה conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3ms They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
- 1 Kings 18:32 וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- 1 Kings 18:36 עָשִׂ֔יתִי Qal pf 1cs It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
- 1 Kings 19:1 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 19:2 יַעֲשׂ֤וּ/ן Qal juss 3mp + sfx n Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
- 1 Kings 19:20 עָשִׂ֖יתִי Qal pf 1cs He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
- 1 Kings 20:9 אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת Qal impf 1cs prep + Qal inf.cs Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
- 1 Kings 20:10 יַעֲשׂ֥וּ/ן Qal juss 3mp + sfx n Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.
- 1 Kings 20:22 תַּעֲשֶׂ֑ה Qal impf 2ms The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.
- 1 Kings 20:24 עֲשֵׂ֑ה Qal impv 2ms Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;
- 1 Kings 20:25 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and number you an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. He listened to their voice, and did so.
- 1 Kings 20:40 עֹשֵׂ֥ה Qal ptcp.act ms cs As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it.
- 1 Kings 21:7 תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 1 Kings 21:11 וַ/יַּעֲשׂוּ֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
- 1 Kings 21:20 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 21:25 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
- 1 Kings 21:26 עָשׂ֣וּ Qal pf 3cp He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.)
- 1 Kings 22:11 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they be consumed.
- 1 Kings 22:22 וַ/עֲשֵׂה conj + Qal impv 2ms Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 1 Kings 22:39 עָשָׂ֗ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 22:43 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 1 Kings 22:45 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 22:48 עָשָׂה֩ Qal pf 3ms Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
- 1 Kings 22:52 וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
- 1 Kings 22:53 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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עשה — transliterated ʻâsâh — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to do.” Read the stem: it spans 4 stems, including Qal and Niphal. Spanning 2,286 verses in 39 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 1:7. Sharing its root, it stands alongside מעשה, בעשיה and יעשו. See the sense tree, 2,286-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6213 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2,286
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,286 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #12
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 12 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2,286 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 270 verses 12%
- Ezekiel 180 verses 8%
- Deuteronomy 148 verses 6%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2,286 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1,012 verses · 44%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 744 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 530 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Do 267×, Did 164×, Made 128×
- American Standard Version†: Do 197×, Did 145×, Made 116×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Do 191×, Did 141×, Make 83×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Do 348×, Did 153×, He made 132×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6213 across 2,630† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 600 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6213 across 2,632† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 674 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6213 across 2,471† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 583 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 149 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6213 across 2,938† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 257 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
40 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 40 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עשה I I. עָשָׂה vb. do, make (NH = BH
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. Gn 3:1 +, sf. עָשָׂהוּ Ho 8:6 +; 3 fs. עָֽשְׂתָה Dt 22:21 +, וְעָשָׂת consec. Lv 25:21; 2 ms. עָשִׂיתָ Gn 3:14 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲשֶׂה Gn 18:25 +, וַיַּעֲשֶׂה 1 K 16:25 + 3 times, וַיַּעַשׂ Is 5:2 +; יַעֲשֵׂה Is 64:3, 2 ms. תַּעֲשֶׂה 1 S 10:8, תַּעֲשֵׂה Gn 26:29 Jos 7:9, juss. (c. אַל) תַּעַשׂ Gn 22:12 +, תַּעֲשֵׂה 2 S 13:12 Je 40:16 Qr (Kt תַּעַשׂ); 1 s. אֶעֱשֶׂה Gn 2:18 +, וָאֶעֱשֶׂה Ez 20:14 Dn 8:27, וָאַעַשׂ Dt 10:3 + 4 times Ez; etc.; Imv. ms. עֲשֵׂה Ju 10:15 +; fs. עֲשִׂי Je 6:26 +, etc.; Inf. abs. עָשׂה 44:17 +; עָשׂוֹ 7:5 + 2 times (4:18 van d. H. עָשׂוּ); cstr. עֲשׂוֹת Gn 2:4 +, עֲשֹׂה 50:20 + 2 times, עֲשׂוֹ 31:28, sf. עֲשׂתוֹ 41:32 +, עֲשׂהוּ †Ex 18:18, etc.; Pt. act. עֹשֶׂה Is 5:5 +, sf. הָעשֹׁוֹ Jb 40:19 (but v. infr.); pl. עֹשִׂים Gn 24:49 +; sf. עֹשָׂ֑י Jb 35:10 (yet v. Ges§ 124 k), etc.; pass. עָשׂוּי Ex 3:16 +, הֶעָשׂוּ Jb 41:25 (Ges§ 75 k); f. עֲשׂוּיָה Ez 21:20 +, etc.;— e.g. Genesis 3:1
- I.
- 1. do (1560 + times):
- a. (1) c. acc. act. Gn 3:14 (J) 20:10 (E) + often; do right in eyes of י׳ 2 K 12:3; 14:13 +, evil 8:18, 27 + (cf. i. עַיִן 3 c); do God’s commands, statutes, etc., Dt 16:12; 30:8, Nu 15:39 (P); ע׳ חַיִל 1 S 14:48 + do might, i.e. mightily, valiantly; Pr 31:29 do efficiency, i.e. efficiently; = commit (offence) Lv 20:13 (H), Dt 20:18; sq. מִן part., וְעָשָׂה מֵאַחַת מֵהֵנָּה Lv 4:2 and shall do a single one of them (things prohibited; v. מִן 3 b (d)), cf. וְעָשׂוּ אַחַת מִכָּל־מִצְוֹת י׳ v 13, 22; 5:17 (all P); do = perform a work, c. acc. cogn. מַעֲשֶׂה Ex 18:20; 23:12 (E), also (י׳ subj.) Dt 11:7 Dn 9:14 Ec 3:11; c. acc. מְלָאכָה Gn 2:2, 2 (J), Ex 20:9, 10 = Dt 9:13 (10 Words); c. acc. דְּרָכֶיךָ †Is 58:13; ע׳ מְלוּכָה עַל 1 K 21:7 = exercise sovereignty over; of י׳ performing signs (אֹתֹת) Jos 24:17 (E), Nu 14:11, 22 (JE), Dt 11:3, so Moses Ex 4:17 and (מֹפְתִים) v 21. (2) do something to one (ל pers.) Gn 20:9 (E), Ju 9:56 +; c. עַל reflex. Je 26:19 do evil against ourselves; especially י׳ subj., c. לְ, do good to Ex 18:9 (E), 1 K 8:66, or evil Gn 42:28 (E); in phr. so may God do to me, etc. 1 S 3:17 2 K 6:31 + (v. יסף Hiph. 1). (3) do something for one (ל pers.) Gn 30:31 1 K 11:8 +, dir. obj. om. 1 S 20:4; + ל rei Ju 21:7, 16 what shall we do for them, for wives? c. עַל pers. Ne 5:19; c. dat. eth. (ל) 1 S 10:7; c. לְ, of י׳ doing kindness for 1 S 22:3; executing vengeance for Ju 11:36 (+ מִן of enemy); י׳ doing a sign (אוֹת) for †Ju 6:17 (elsewhere נָתַן אוֹת לְ), cf. עֲשֵׂה־עִמִּי אוֹת לְטוֹבָה ψ 86:17. (4) do someth. (in relation or intercourse) with (עִם, אֵת pers.), י׳ subj. Ex 34:10 Dt 1:30 all that he did with you, 10:21 (cf. ψ 86:17 supr.), human subj. 2 Ch 24:24 (obj. שְׁפָטִים), Ru 2:11. (5) seldom c. ב, usually of executing judgment upon 1 S 28:18 Is 48:14, more gen. Est 1:15 what shall we do with the queen? also, subj. י׳, Ez 25:11; 28:26 ψ 149:7, 9 Nu 33:4 (on false gods); in good sense, ע׳ חֲסָדִים בּ׳ Ne 13:14. (6) of י׳ doing the justice (מִשְׁפַּט) of any one, i.e. maintaining his cause 1 K 8:45, 49 ψ 9:5. (7) c. adv. do thus, כֹּה, Jos 6:14 (JE), according to, כְּ, Gn 6:22 (P), 18:21 (J), 1 K 2:6; acc. as, כַּאֲשֶׁר Gn 27:19 (J); Ex 1:17 (E) +; c. בְּ of manner, Ju 9:16a, Ez 8:18; 25:15. e.g. Genesis 3:14
- b. work for (ל rei) Gn 30:30 (J); c. ל pers. 1 S 14:6 Ez 29:20 (for י׳); work in (ב) gold or other material 1 K 7:14 2 Ch 2:6, 13 Ex 31:4, 5; 35:32 (all P); c. בָּהּ (i.e. בָּעֲבֹדָח) Ex 5:9 (J) in toil Ne 4:10; work w. (עִם) God 1 S 14:45, so prob. of God’s working with (אֵת) Moses and Aaron 1 S 12:6 (usually appoint); c. עִם with (of pers. in whose company, in whose field) Ru 2:19(×2) (gleaning); work בְּחֵפֶץ כַּפֶּיהָ Pr 31:13; without prep. Ex 36:1 Ne 3:38. e.g. Genesis 30:30
- 2. deal with, c. עִם, 2 Ch 2:2 Dn 1:13 (כַּאֲשֶׁר acc. as); c. אֵת, Ez (17:17) 20:44 Mic 5:14 ψ 109:21; Ez 22:14 Zp 3:19 (Gr Now ins. כָּלָה, v. ii 1 g), + כְּ Je 21:2, + בְּ of manner Ez 23:25, 29; c. לְ pers. + בְּ 25:12; c. בְּ pers., Je 18:23 Dn 11:7, + כְּ according toNe 9:24 Est 3:11. e.g. 2 Chronicles 2:2
- 3. often in phr., do kindness (חֶסֶד) with: c. עִם, (עִמָּדִי) Gn 19:19; 24:12, 14 (J), Ju 1:24; 8:35 1 S 15:6 2 S 2:5; 10:2 = 1 Ch 19:2 +; c. עַל, 1 S 20:8 (but read עִם Vrss We Dr al.); abs., ψ 109:16; obj. חֶסֶד + אֱמֶת, c. עִם, Jos 2:14 (JE) Ju 9:19 2 S 2:6; c. אֵת with, Gn 24:49; 32:11; 47:29 (all J); c. לְ, Ex 20:6 = Dt 5:10, 2 S 22:51 = ψ 18:51; so ע׳ טוֹב, c. עִם, Gn 26:29 (J), cf. Ju 8:35; 9:16; c. אֵת with, 1 S 24:19 2 S 2:6. e.g. Genesis 19:19
- 4. abs. act, act with effect, especially of י׳, 1 K 8:32, 39 Je 14:7 Ez 20:9, 14, 22 ψ 22:32; 37:5; 52:11 Dn 9:19; of men 2 Ch 31:21 Dn 8:12, 24; 11:28, 30, 32; c. ל pers. Ez 31:11. e.g. 1 Kings 8:32
- 1. do (1560 + times):
- II.
- 1. make (670 + times):
- a. c. obj. concr., ark Gn 8:6, altar 13:4, idols Ju 18:24, 31 +, etc. e.g. Genesis 8:6
- b. often of God’s making (creating) Gn 3:1 (J), 1:7, 16, 25 (P), Ne 9:6 Jb 9:9 Pr 8:26 2 Ch 2:11 ψ 95:5 +; making man ψ 100:3; 119:73 (made by God’s hands), in the womb Jb 31:15(×2); making constituting, nation Dt 26:19; 32:6, 15; pt. sf. עֹשֵׂהוּ his Maker Is 17:7 Pr 14:31; 17:5 (הָעֹשׂוֹ Jb 40:19 is improb., most read הֶעָשָׂוּי, with various interpr. of foll. words); עֹשֶׂךָ Is 51:13, עֹשֵׂנִי Jb 32:22 (Ginsb; v 22 van d. H. Baer), עֹשֵׂנוּ ψ 95:6; so appar. pt. pl. עֹשָׂ֑י Jb 35:10, עֹשַׂיִךְ Is 54:5 (Ges§ 124 k expl. as sg.). e.g. Genesis 3:1
- c. make something, c. לְ reflex., make for thee Ex 20:4 Dt 9:12; 10:1 +, for (ל) another 1 S 2:19 2 S 7:11 1 K 2:24 +; obj. מִשְׁתֶּה banquet Gn 40:20 Est 5:4, also (no ל) Gn 29:22 (E) Ju 14:10 Est 5:5, 12 and (fig., י׳ subj.) Is 25:6; c. ל rei, Dt 22:8; c. ל of animal Gn 33:17 (J). e.g. Exodus 20:4
- d. make a name (שֵׁם) for oneself (ל) 2 S 7:9 1 Ch 17:8, also (no ל) 2 S 8:13; a new heart for oneself (ל) Ez 18:31. e.g. 2 Samuel 7:9
- e. make war with (אֶת) Gn 14:2 Jos 11:18 (D); c. עִם, Dt 20:12, 20 1 Ch 5:10, 19; abs. 1 Ch 22:8; c. ל reflex. Pr 24:6; pt. עֹשֵׂה מִלְחָמָה 2 Ch 11:1; 26:11, 13; make peace, c. ל pers. Jos 9:15 (J); ע׳ אִתִּי בְרָכָה 2 K 18:31 make an agreement with me. e.g. Genesis 14:2
- f. c. ב, ע׳ פֶּרֶץ בּ׳ Ju 21:15 י׳ brought a catastrophe upon (cf. פרץ). e.g. Judges 21:15
- g. c. 2 acc., make something out of (acc. mater.) Ex 25:18; 28:13; 37:17, 24 Ct 3:10 Dt 10:3 +; make something into something (Ges§ 117 ii) Ho 8:4 Gn 27:9 Ju 17:4 Nu 11:8; 17:3 ψ 104:4; make something כָּלָה, i.e. utterly destroy it Na 1:8 Zp 1:18 Ez 20:17 Ne 9:31; c. pt. pass. as 2nd acc. Ex 38:7 they made it נְבוּב לֻחֹת hollow with boards, 39:9; but also c. acc. + לְ, Ho 2:10 gold they made into (ל) the Baal, Ju 8:27 Ex 27:3 (P), Dt 9:14 Je 37:15 Ez 4:9 IS 44:17, 19; make something for (ל pers.), + מִן of material Ct 3:9. e.g. Exodus 25:18
- 2. produce, yield: of grain, yielding meal Ho 8:7(×2), vineyard, grapes Is 5:2(×2), 4(×2), 10, tree, fruit 2 K 19:30 = Is 37:31, Ho 9:16 Je 12:2; 17:8 Ez 17:23 (all fig.), Gn 1:11, 12 (P); branches Jb 14:9 and (fig.) Ez 17:8; land, fruit Lv 25:21 cf. Hb 3:17, abs. Gn 41:47; of seed Is 5:10, vine, shoots Ez 17:6 (fig.); of cows, yielding milk Is 7:22; hippop. producing fat Jb 15:27. e.g. Hosea 8:7
- 3. prepare, especially of dressing and cooking food, Gn 18:7, 8 Ju 6:19; 13:15 1 S 25:18 (pass.), 2 S 12:4(×2) Gn 27:14, 17, 31 2 S 13:5, 7 1 K 17:12 Ex 12:39 (+ ל reflex.) Ez 35:6; a bullock for sacrifice 1 K 18:23, 25, 26; כְּלֵי גוֹלָה Ez 12:3 (+ ל reflex.); a chamber Ne 13:7; prepare to build (+ ל pers. and inf.). e.g. Genesis 18:7
- 4. make offering, e.g. עוֹלָה Ju 13:16 Je 33:18 Lv 16:24, עוֹלָה וָזֶבַח 2 K 5:17 (+ ל dei), הַחַטָּאת Lv 14:19, אִשֶּׁה Nu 15:3, 14, various offerings 1 K 8:64 Lv 9:22 Ez 45:17; 46:2 +; + לי׳ to י׳ Lv 17:9 +; also c. acc. of thing sacrificed (perhaps orig. prepare or provide, v. supr.) Ez 43:25(×2); 46:15 Lv 14:30; 15:15, 30; 16:9 Nu 6:11, 17 ψ 66:15 (+ ל dei) +; abs. = offer sacrifice Ex 10:25 (E + לי׳), to (ל) heathen gods 2 K 17:32. e.g. Judges 13:16
- 5. attend to, put in order: pare (the nails) Dt 21:12; wash (feet) 2 S 19:25; trim (beard) v 25 (cf. Fr faire la barbe, Ger. die Haare machen). e.g. Deuteronomy 21:12
- 6. observe, celebrate, religious festival, e.g. pass-over Ex 12:47, 48; Nu 9:4, 6, 13; Jos 5:10, also (+ לי׳) Ex 12:48 Nu 9:10, 14 (all P), Dt 16:1 +; sabbath Ex 31:16; Dt 5:15; feast of weeks 16:10, booths 16:13, Purim Est 9:21, 27, etc. e.g. Exodus 12:47
- 7. acquire property of various kinds (cf. ‘make money’) Gn 12:5; 31:1 (J); Is 15:7; Je 17:11; 48:36; Dt 8:18; Ez 22:13; 28:4(×2); 38:12; 2 Ch 32:29; Ec 2:8; + ל reflex. Dt 8:17; 2 S 15:1; 1 K 1:5; of fruits from vineyards, etc. ψ 107:37. e.g. Genesis 12:5
- 8. appoint priests 1 K 12:31; 13:33; 2 Ch 2:17 (all + מִן source), a feast 1 K 12:32, 33 (+ ל pers.); ordain a sacrifice Nu 28:6, a festal day ψ 118:24; institute, אוֹב וְיִדְּעֹנִי ghost and familiar spirit 2 K 21:6 = 2 Ch 33:6 (cf. Dr Dt 18:11). e.g. 1 Kings 12:31
- 9. bring about, of י׳’s effecting a deliverance Ex 14:13 (לָכֶם), 1 S 11:13; 2 S 23:10 (ins. also ‖ 1 Ch 11:13 Dr), v 12; cause, sq. cl. c. שֶׁ Ec 3:14. e.g. Exodus 14:13
- 10. use, וְע׳ לִמְלַאכְתּוֹ 1 S 8:16; pass. Ex 38:24 e.g. 1 Samuel 8:16
- 11. spend, pass, days of life Ec 6:12. e.g. Ecclesiastes 6:12
- 1. make (670 + times):
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. נַעֲשָׂה Ju 16:11 +; 3 fs. נֶעֶשְׂתָה 2 S 17:23 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יֵעָשֶׂה Gn 29:26 +, 3 fs. c. ו subord. וְתֵעָשׂ Est 5:6; 7:2; 9:12 (Ges§ 109 f), etc.; Inf. cstr. הֵעָשׂוֹת Est 9:1, 14, etc.; Pt. נַעֲשֶׂה Ne 5:18, etc.;— e.g. Judges 16:11
- 1. be done (pass. of Qal I 1):
- a. subj. מְלָאכָה Ju 16:11 (c. ב instr.), Ne 6:16 (c. מֵאֵת אֱלֹהִים), v 9 Ex 12:16 + 4 times; subj. om. Ez 44:14, indef. Est 4:1; c. כֵּן 9:14; be done, כַּתּוֹרָה Ezr 10:3; be committed, of offence, Dt 13:15; Nu 15:24; Ec 4:1 + 3 times; c. neg. not (yet) done, i.e. future Is 46:10; be accomplished, performed, fulfilled Ez 12:25, 28; Dn 11:36; Est 5:5; 7:2; 9:12; be executed, carried out, of sentence Ec 8:11, decree Est 9:1; be followed, of counsel 2 S 17:23; nearly = occur Ec 1:9(×2), 13; 9:3, 6, subj. מַעֲשֶׂה 1:14; 2:17; 4:3; 8:9, 17, subj. הֶבֶל v 14, עִנְיָן v 15. e.g. Judges 16:11
- b. Impf. c. neg., is (are) not done, not according to usage, of flagrant offences Gn 20:9 (E), 29:26 (c.כֵּן), 34:7 (both J), 2 S 13:12 (כֵּן); hence (P) not to be done, forbidden by י׳ Lv 4:2, 13, 22, 27; 5:17. e.g. Genesis 20:9
- c. be done to, c. ל of animal 1 S 11:7 (כֹּה); ל pers. Ex 2:4 (E) 21:31 (E; כַּמִּשְׁפָּט), Is 3:11; Je 5:13 (כֹּה), Lv 24:19 (H; כֵּן), Nu 15:34 (P) + 8 times; be done for, ל pers. Ju 11:37; Est 6:3, עִם pers v 3; ל rei Nu 15:11 (כָּכָה). e.g. 1 Samuel 11:7
- d. be done upon, against (ב) Dn 9:12. e.g. Daniel 9:12
- 2. (pass. of Qal II):
- a. be made, of concr. things 1 K 10:20 = 2 Ch 9:19 (throne), Je 3:16 (ark), 2 K 12:14; Ez 43:18; Ex 25:31; Nu 4:26 (P); c. acc. mat. Lv 2:7. e.g. 1 Kings 10:20
- b. be produced from (מִן) vine Nu 6:4. e.g. Numbers 6:4
- c. be prepared, of food Ex 12:16; Lv 6:14; 7:9 (all P), Ne 5:18(×2). e.g. Exodus 12:16
- d. be offered, מִנְחָה Lv 2:8, 11, kid Nu 28:15, 24. e.g. Leviticus 2:8
- e. be observed, passover 2 K 23:22, 23 (ל dei) = 2 Ch 35:18, 19; Purim Est 9:28. e.g. 2 Kings 23:22
- f. be used + ל rei Lv 7:24; 13:51 (P), Ez 15:5(×2); cf. Ex 38:24; 1 S 8:16. e.g. Leviticus 7:24
Pual
- Pf. 1 s. עֻשֵּׂיתִי ψ 139:15 I was made. e.g. Psalms 139:15
עשה II
Piel
- press, squeeze (NH עִשָּׂה Pi. compel; 𝔗 עַסִּי Pa. crush, gnash (teeth); cf. Arabic غَشِىَ compress a woman);—Pf. 3 pl. עִשּׂוּ דַּדֵּי בְּתוּלִים Ez 23:3, 8 (unchaste act); Inf. cstr. בַּעֲשׂוֹת … דַּדַּיִךְ v 21 read Pi. בְּעַשּׂוֹת (Ew Co Toy, al.). e.g. Ezekiel 23:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. עָשָׂה vb. do, make (NH = BH; MI23.26 עשתי, l.3.9 ואעש, l.24 Imv. עשו; OH n.pr. עשיו, אלעשה, מעשיהו; not Aramaic, and not certainly found in S. Sem. lang.; on Sab. v. especially DHMSB Berl. Akkadian 1886, 849);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָשָׂה
- , v. עשי
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 815 distinct written forms H6213 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 755 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6213, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בעשיה Baʻăsêyâh H1202 Baaseiah
- יעשו Yaʻăsûw H3299 Jaasau
- יעשיאל Yaʻăsîyʼêl H3300 Jasiel
- מעשי Maʻăsay H4640 Maasiai
- עשהאל ʻĂsâhʼêl H6214 Asahel
- עשו ʻÊsâv H6215 Esau
- עשיאל ʻĂsîyʼêl H6221 Asiel
- עשיה ʻĂsâyâh H6222 Asaiah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2,142 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2,286 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:7
- Exodus 1:17
- Leviticus 2:7
- Numbers 1:54
- Deuteronomy 1:14
- Joshua 1:7
- Judges 1:7
- Ruth 1:8
- 1 Samuel 1:7
- 2 Samuel 2:5
- 1 Kings 1:5
- 2 Kings 1:18
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
