מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh

Hebrew · Strong's H4639 · pronounced mah-as-eh' · used 236 times in 222 verses

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: 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.

Derivation: from H6213 (עָשָׂה);

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Where it is used

Psalms 102:25 In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Psalms 103:22 Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
Psalms 104:13 He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
Psalms 104:24 How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Psalms 104:31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
Psalms 106:13 Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Psalms 106:35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Psalms 106:39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Psalms 107:22 Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
Psalms 107:24 They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.
Psalms 111:2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
Psalms 111:6 He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Psalms 111:7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.
Psalms 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalms 118:17 I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
Psalms 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalms 138:8 The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.
Psalms 139:14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Psalms 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
Psalms 145:4 One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
Psalms 145:9 The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Psalms 145:10 All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
Psalms 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.
Psalms 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
Proverbs 31:31 Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 3:22 I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 4:3 But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
Ecclesiastes 8:17 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
Song of Solomon 7:1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Isaiah 3:24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
Isaiah 5:12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
Isaiah 5:19 to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
Isaiah 10:12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
Isaiah 17:8 They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.
Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
Isaiah 19:15 There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
Isaiah 19:25 The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
Isaiah 26:12 O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
Isaiah 29:16 You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?