maase · work, deed

What it means

maase (מַעֲשֶׂה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “work, deed”.

Work, labor; what someone does or makes; a deed.

How to say it

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. What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
2. What one does each day to earn a living: his work, his trade.
3. Something made by hand: a piece of craftsmanship, or an idol.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Work, labor: what someone does or makes. BDB defines it as an action, good or bad, and from there an activity and a product. It comes from עָשָׂה, “do, make”.

• Everyday work Genesis 5:29Exodus 23:12
• A craftsman's work Exodus 26:1
• The works of God: “the work of his hands” Psalms 19:1Psalms 8:3
• “The work of the hands of human beings”: idols Deuteronomy 4:28
• Every work will come into judgment Ecclesiastes 12:14

How we translate it

“Work” 146 times, “works” 57, “deeds” 9, “workmanship” 6. מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵי אָדָם is translated “the work of the hands of human beings”.

How it is translated

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

• work ×146
• works ×57
• deeds ×9
• workmanship ×6
• deed ×3
• as they do ×2
• labors ×2
• making ×2
• occupation ×2
• crafted ×1
• others ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×40
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×13
• Joshua×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×10
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×39
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×21
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×27
• Jeremiah×14
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×7
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Micah×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×2

• Genesis 5:29

  And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground that YHWH has cursed.”

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Deeds that ought not to be done you have done to me.”

• Genesis 40:17

  In the top basket there was every kind of food for Pharaoh, the work of a baker, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

• Genesis 44:15

  Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man such as I indeed practices divination?”

• Genesis 46:33

  When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

• Genesis 47:3

  Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds of flocks, both we and our fathers.”

• Exodus 5:4

  The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people away from their work? Go to your burdens!”

• Exodus 5:13

  The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Complete your work, each day’s task on its day, just as when there was straw.”

• Exodus 18:20

  Teach them the statutes and the instructions, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

• Exodus 23:12

  Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

• Exodus 23:16

  And the feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field; and the feast of Ingathering at the going out of the year, when you gather in your labors from the field.

• Exodus 23:24

  You shall not bow down to their gods or serve them, or do according to their works, but you shall utterly tear them down and smash their standing stones.

• Exodus 24:10

  and they saw the Elohim of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a work of pavement of sapphire, and like the very heavens for clearness.

• Exodus 26:1

  The dwelling you shall make of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, you shall make them.

• Exodus 26:31

  You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, it shall be made.

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 27:4

  You shall make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and you shall make on the network four rings of bronze at its four corners.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 28:6

  They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 28:8

  And the woven band of its ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen.

• Exodus 28:11

  As the work of a stonecutter, with engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; mounted in settings of gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 28:14

  and two chains of pure gold; twisted you shall make them, of corded work, and you shall fasten the corded chains to the settings.

• Exodus 28:15

  You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

• Exodus 28:22

  You shall make on the breastpiece twisted chains, of corded work, of pure gold.

• Exodus 28:32

  There shall be an opening for its head in its middle, with a binding around its opening, the work of a weaver; like the opening of a coat of mail it shall be for it, so that it will not tear.

• Exodus 28:39

  You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and a sash you shall make, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 30:25

  You shall make of it a holy anointing oil, a blended mixture, the work of a perfumer; a holy anointing oil it shall be.

• Exodus 30:35

  You shall make of it incense, a blend, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

• Exodus 32:16

  And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim, engraved on the tablets.

• Exodus 34:10

  And he said, “Look, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders that have not been created in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of YHWH, for it is fearsome, what I am doing with you.

• Exodus 36:8

  And all the wise of heart among those who did the work made the dwelling with ten curtains of twisted fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, he made them.

• Exodus 36:35

  And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; the work of a skilled craftsman, he made it with cherubim.

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 37:29

  And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

• Exodus 38:4

  And he made for the altar a grating, a work of network of bronze, under its ledge, from below up to its middle.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 39:5

  And the woven band of its ephod that was on it was of one piece with it, of the same workmanship, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Exodus 39:8

  And he made the breastpiece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 39:15

  And they made on the breastpiece chains, twisted, a work of cord, of pure gold.

And 195 more times.