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עָשָׂה

asa · do, make

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6213 · appears 2629 times in the Bible

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What it means

asa (עָשָׂה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “do, make”.

In the widest sense: build, produce, carry out, keep (a command), prepare.

How to say it

a·sa

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
  2. To build or create something.
  3. To do what is commanded.
  4. To prepare food; offer a sacrifice; keep a feast.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Do, make, in the widest sense: fashion, produce, carry out, prepare, keep. From the same root comes מַעֲשֶׂה, “work, deed”.

How we translate it

The usual rendering is “do” or “make”: “do” 603 times, “did” 324, “made” 294, “done” 269, “make” 138. When the object is statutes, rules or commandments, this edition says “carry out”, because the point is to put them into practice. With a meal, “prepare”; with the Passover, “keep”; with עָשָׂה חֶסֶד, “show loyal love” to someone.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • do ×603
  • did ×324
  • made ×294
  • done ×269
  • make ×138
  • he made ×119
  • doing ×95
  • You shall make ×86
  • had done ×76
  • does ×67
  • others ×558

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 1:7

    And Elohim made the vault and separated the waters that were under the vault from the waters that were above the vault. And it was so.

  • Genesis 1:11

    And Elohim said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to its kind, that has its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so.

  • Genesis 1:12

    And the earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit that has its seed in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

  • Genesis 1:16

    And Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.

  • Genesis 1:25

    And Elohim made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

  • Genesis 1:26

    And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

  • Genesis 1:31

    And Elohim saw everything that he had made, and look, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Genesis 2:2

    And on the seventh day Elohim finished his work that he had done, and on the seventh day he ceased from all his work that he had done.

  • Genesis 2:3

    And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he ceased from all his work that Elohim had created to make.

  • Genesis 2:4

    These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH Elohim made earth and heavens.

  • Genesis 2:18

    And YHWH Elohim said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make for him a helper corresponding to him.”

  • Genesis 3:1

    Now the serpent was more shrewd than any animal of the field that YHWH Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, “Did Elohim really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

  • Genesis 3:7

    And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

  • Genesis 3:13

    And YHWH Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

  • Genesis 3:14

    And YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all the livestock and from among every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

  • Genesis 3:21

    And YHWH Elohim made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them.

  • Genesis 4:10

    And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.

  • Genesis 5:1

    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created the human being, in the likeness of Elohim he made him.

  • Genesis 6:6

    And YHWH was sorry that he had made the human being on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.

  • Genesis 6:7

    And YHWH said, “I will wipe out the human being whom I have created from the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”

  • Genesis 6:14

    Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; with compartments you shall make the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

  • Genesis 6:15

    And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

  • Genesis 6:16

    An opening you shall make for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from above; and the door of the ark you shall put in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

  • Genesis 6:22

    And Noah did so; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so he did.

  • Genesis 7:4

    For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”

  • Genesis 7:5

    And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.

  • Genesis 8:6

    And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

  • Genesis 8:21

    And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

  • Genesis 9:6

    Whoever sheds the blood of the human being, by the human being his blood will be shed; for in the image of Elohim he made the human being.

  • Genesis 9:24

    And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

  • Genesis 11:4

    And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, so that we are not scattered over the face of all the earth.”

  • Genesis 11:6

    And YHWH said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; and now nothing that they plan to do will be out of reach for them.

  • Genesis 12:2

    I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make great your name; and be a blessing.

  • Genesis 12:5

    Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

  • Genesis 12:18

    So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

  • Genesis 13:4

    to the place of the altar that he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of YHWH.

  • Genesis 14:2

    that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

  • Genesis 16:6

    But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.

  • Genesis 18:5

    And I will bring a morsel of bread, and refresh your hearts; after that you may go on, since that is why you have come by your servant.” They said, “Do so, as you have said.”

  • Genesis 18:6

    So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

And 2589 more times.