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).
145 verses where H6213 appears in the Qal stem in the Book of Deuteronomy. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 1:14 לַ/עֲשֽׂוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.
- Deuteronomy 1:18 תַּעֲשֽׂוּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
- Deuteronomy 1:30 עָשָׂ֧ה Qal pf 3ms Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
- Deuteronomy 1:44 תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ינָה Qal impf 3fp The Amorites, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Deuteronomy 2:22 עָשָׂה֙ Qal pf 3ms as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Deuteronomy 2:29 עָֽשׂוּ Qal pf 3cp as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
- Deuteronomy 3:2 וְ/עָשִׂ֣יתָ עָשִׂ֗יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Qal pf 2ms Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
- Deuteronomy 3:6 עָשִׂ֔ינוּ Qal pf 1cp We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 עָשָׂ֜ה יַעֲשֶׂ֤ה Qal pf 3ms Qal impf 3ms I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 3:24 יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 3ms Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
- Deuteronomy 4:1 לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deuteronomy 4:3 עָשָׂ֥ה Qal pf 3ms Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:6 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶם֒ conj + Qal wpf 2mp Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 לַ/עֲשֹׂתְ/כֶ֣ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:16 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:23 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:25 וַ/עֲשִׂ֤יתֶם וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp conj + Qal wpf 2mp When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 4:34 עָשָׂ֨ה Qal pf 3ms Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 5:1 לַ/עֲשֹׂתָֽ/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.
- Deuteronomy 5:8 תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deuteronomy 5:10 וְ/עֹ֥שֶׂה conj + Qal ptcp.act ms and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 5:13 וְ/עָשִׂ֖יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
- Deuteronomy 5:14 תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 2ms but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 לַ/עֲשׂ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 5:27 וְ/עָשִֽׂינוּ conj + Qal wpf 1cp Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
- Deuteronomy 5:31 וְ/עָשׂ֣וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 5:32 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:3 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 6:18 וְ/עָשִׂ֛יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 6:24 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ prep + Qal inf.cs Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 6:25 לַ/עֲשׂ֜וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 תַעֲשׂוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
- Deuteronomy 7:11 לַ/עֲשׂוֹתָֽ/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
- Deuteronomy 7:12 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
- Deuteronomy 7:18 עָשָׂה֙ Qal pf 3ms you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 7:19 יַעֲשֶׂ֞ה Qal impf 3ms the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 8:1 לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:17 עָ֥שָׂה Qal pf 3ms and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
- Deuteronomy 8:18 לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:12 עָשׂ֥וּ Qal pf 3cp Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:14 וְ/אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ conj + Qal impf 1cs let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם Qal pf 2mp I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:21 עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם Qal pf 2mp I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 וְ/עָשִׂ֥יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:3 וָ/אַ֤עַשׂ conj + Qal wimpf 1cs So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
- Deuteronomy 10:5 עָשִׂ֑יתִי Qal pf 1cs I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 10:18 עֹשֶׂ֛ה Qal ptcp.act ms He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 10:21 עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
- Deuteronomy 11:3 עָשָׂ֖ה Qal pf 3ms and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 11:4 עָשָׂה֩ Qal pf 3ms and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Deuteronomy 11:5 עָשָׂ֛ה Qal pf 3ms and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
- Deuteronomy 11:6 עָשָׂ֜ה Qal pf 3ms and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Deuteronomy 11:7 עָשָֽׂה Qal pf 3ms but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.
- Deuteronomy 11:22 לַ/עֲשֹׂתָ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
- Deuteronomy 11:32 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֒ prep + Qal inf.cs These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- Deuteronomy 12:4 תַעֲשׂ֣וּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:8 תַעֲשׂ֔וּ/ן עֹשִׂ֛ים Qal impf 2mp + sfx n Qal ptcp.act mp You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
- Deuteronomy 12:14 תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה Qal impf 2ms but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
- Deuteronomy 12:25 תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 12:27 וְ/עָשִׂ֤יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
- Deuteronomy 12:28 תַעֲשֶׂה֙ Qal impf 2ms Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:30 וְ/אֶעֱשֶׂה conj + Qal impf 1cs take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 12:31 תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה עָשׂוּ֙ Qal impf 2ms Qal pf 3cp You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 12:32 לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- Deuteronomy 13:11 לַ/עֲשׂ֗וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 13:18 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ prep + Qal inf.cs when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 14:29 תַּעֲשֶֽׂה Qal impf 2ms and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
- Deuteronomy 15:1 תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
- Deuteronomy 15:5 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ prep + Qal inf.cs if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
- Deuteronomy 15:17 תַּעֲשֶׂה Qal impf 2ms then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 15:18 תַּעֲשֶֽׂה Qal impf 2ms It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Deuteronomy 16:1 וְ/עָשִׂ֣יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
- Deuteronomy 16:8 תַעֲשֶׂ֖ה Qal impf 2ms Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].
- Deuteronomy 16:10 וְ/עָשִׂ֜יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
- Deuteronomy 16:12 וְ/עָשִׂ֔יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 16:13 תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
- Deuteronomy 16:21 תַּעֲשֶׂה Qal impf 2ms You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
- Deuteronomy 17:2 יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה Qal impf 3ms If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
- Deuteronomy 17:5 עָ֠שׂוּ Qal pf 3cp then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
- Deuteronomy 17:10 וְ/עָשִׂ֗יתָ לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת conj + Qal wpf 2ms prep + Qal inf.cs You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
- Deuteronomy 17:11 תַּעֲשֶׂ֑ה Qal impf 2ms according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 3ms The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:19 לַ/עֲשֹׂתָֽ/ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
- Deuteronomy 18:9 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- Deuteronomy 18:12 עֹ֣שֵׂה Qal ptcp.act ms cs For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 19:9 לַ/עֲשֹׂתָ֗/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
- Deuteronomy 19:19 וַ/עֲשִׂ֣יתֶם לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת conj + Qal wpf 2mp prep + Qal inf.cs then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 19:20 לַ/עֲשׂ֜וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 20:12 וְ/עָשְׂתָ֥ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
- Deuteronomy 20:15 תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ Qal impf 2ms Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- Deuteronomy 20:18 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת עָשׂ֖וּ prep + Qal inf.cs Qal pf 3cp that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 20:20 עֹשָׂ֧ה Qal ptcp.act fs Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 21:9 תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal impf 2ms So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 21:12 וְ/עָשְׂתָ֖ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
- Deuteronomy 22:3 תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה תַּעֲשֶׂה֮ תַּעֲשֶׂ֜ה Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 2ms So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
- Deuteronomy 22:5 עֹ֥שֵׂה Qal ptcp.act ms cs A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 22:8 וְ/עָשִׂ֥יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
- Deuteronomy 22:12 תַּעֲשֶׂה Qal impf 2ms You shall make you fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
- Deuteronomy 22:21 עָשְׂתָ֤ה Qal pf 3fs then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal impf 2ms but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
- Deuteronomy 23:23 וְ/עָשִׂ֑יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
- Deuteronomy 24:8 וְ/לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת לַ/עֲשֽׂוֹת conj + prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
- Deuteronomy 24:9 עָשָׂ֛ה Qal pf 3ms Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 24:22 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 25:16 עֹ֣שֵׂה עֹ֥שֵׂה Qal ptcp.act ms cs Qal ptcp.act ms cs For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 25:17 עָשָׂ֥ה Qal pf 3ms Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 26:14 עָשִׂ֕יתִי Qal pf 1cs I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 26:16 לַ/עֲשׂ֛וֹת וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ֙ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 2ms This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 26:19 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 27:10 וְ/עָשִׂ֤יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
- Deuteronomy 27:15 יַעֲשֶׂה֩ Qal impf 3ms Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:26 לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 28:1 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ prep + Qal inf.cs It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
- Deuteronomy 28:13 וְ/לַ/עֲשֽׂוֹת conj + prep + Qal inf.cs Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
- Deuteronomy 28:15 לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ prep + Qal inf.cs But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 תַּעֲשֶׂ֑ה Qal impf 2ms Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 לַ/עֲשׂ֗וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
- Deuteronomy 29:2 עָשָׂ֨ה Qal pf 3ms Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 29:9 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם תַּעֲשֽׂוּ/ן conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal impf 2mp + sfx n Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
- Deuteronomy 29:24 עָשָׂ֧ה Qal pf 3ms even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
- Deuteronomy 29:29 לַ/עֲשׂ֕וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 30:8 וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ֙ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
- Deuteronomy 30:12 וְ/נַעֲשֶֽׂ/נָּה conj + Qal coh 1cp + sfx pers 3fs It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
- Deuteronomy 30:13 וְ/נַעֲשֶֽׂ/נָּה conj + Qal impf 1cp + sfx pers 3fs Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
- Deuteronomy 30:14 לַ/עֲשֹׂתֽ/וֹ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
- Deuteronomy 31:4 וְ/עָשָׂ֤ה עָשָׂ֗ה conj + Qal wpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 31:5 וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 31:12 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
- Deuteronomy 31:18 עָשָׂ֑ה Qal pf 3ms I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 עֹשֶׂה֙ Qal ptcp.act ms It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 תַעֲשׂ֤וּ Qal impf 2mp For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 32:6 עָֽשְׂ/ךָ֖ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
- Deuteronomy 32:15 עָשָׂ֔/הוּ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Deuteronomy 32:46 לַ/עֲשׂ֔וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 33:21 עָשָׂ֔ה Qal pf 3ms He provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved; He came [with] the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.
- Deuteronomy 34:9 וַֽ/יַּעֲשׂ֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 34:11 לַ/עֲשׂ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
- Deuteronomy 34:12 עָשָׂ֣ה Qal pf 3ms and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.
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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.
