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מַעֲשֶׂה

maaseh

mah-as-eh'

Strong's 1890 spelling: maʻăseh

an action (good or bad)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

Rendered in the KJV as

act, art, [phrase] bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, [idiom] well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

  • 236
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 31 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 119
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 236 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 119

  • מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה31
  • מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה26
  • מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה16
  • כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה5
  • מַעֲשֵׂ֤ה5
  • מַעֲשֵׂ֣י5
  • מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ5
  • כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה4
  • בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה3
  • הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה3
  • וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה3
  • מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה3

and 107 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 86

  • [the] work of59
  • works your12
  • a work of9
  • and [the] work of8
  • deeds their7
  • the work7
  • works his7
  • [the] works of5
  • by [the] work of5
  • work his5
  • according to [the] deed[s] of4
  • [was] [the] work of3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 30

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)85
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)22
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular12
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular11
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)10
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular10
  • noun · masculine singular10
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)8
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural8
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural5
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 85
  • HR/Ncmsc · 22
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 13
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 12
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 11
  • HC/Ncmsc · 10
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 10
  • HNcmsa · 10
  • HNcmpc · 8
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 8
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 5
  • HNcmpc/Sp2mp · 4

All 236, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis6 occurrences
Exodus40 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers4 occurrences
Deuteronomy13 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges4 occurrences
1 Samuel4 occurrences
1 Kings13 occurrences
2 Kings4 occurrences
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther1 occurrence
Job5 occurrences
Psalms40 occurrences
Proverbs3 occurrences
Ecclesiastes21 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah27 occurrences
Jeremiah14 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel7 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea2 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Haggai2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).