מַעֲשֶׂה
maʿăśeh
deed
Strong's H4639NounHebrewTWOT 1708a

מַעֲשֶׂה (maʿăśeh) is a Hebrew noun meaning deed. It appears 235 times in 31 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4639).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1708a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1708a)deed, work; action, transaction, activity, product, poem, property; act, art, bakemeat, business, do, doing, labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, workmanship, wrought
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מַעֲשֶׂה noun, masculine: deed, work

Strong's H4639 מַעֲשֶׂה: an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV:act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1708: עָשָׂה ʿāśâ — do, make; deal, act, act with effect, produce, yield, prepare, attend to, put in order, observe, celebrate, acquire, appoint, bring about, use, spend, pass; be done, be made, be produced, be prepared, be offered, be observed…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 5:29Exodus 5:4Leviticus 18:3

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