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ma.a.seh H4639

מַעֲשֶׂה (ma.a.seh) means “deed: work” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מַעֲשֶׂה Hebrew · H4639 235 tagged occurrences in 221 verses

Pronunciation guide: mah-as-eh' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4639G

מַעֲשֶׂה · ma.a.seh · deed: work

: work/product 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

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TBESH · H4639H

מַעֲשֶׂה · ma.a.seh · deed: justice

: justice/right/righteousness 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

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TBESH · H4639I

מַעֲשֶׂה · ma.a.seh · deed: judgement

: judgement/punishment 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

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TBESH · H4639J

מַעֲשֶׂה · ma.a.seh · deed: custom

: custom/manner 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

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TBESH · H4639K

מַעֲשֶׂה · ma.a.seh · deed

: deed 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H6213 (עָשָׂה); an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

KJV glosses: 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.

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How translators render H4639

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the work	37
work	10
the works	9
his work	6
deed	4
your works	4
are your works	3
by the work	3
his works	3
made	3
the practices	3
things	3
to the work	3
a work	2
and the work	2
and your works	2
deeds	2
have done	2
is your occupation	2
justice	2
of his works	2
products	2
their deeds	2
their works	2
was fashioned	2
were shaped	2
what the actions	2
with the same workmanship	2
with the works	2
worked	2
your work	2
a woven	1
about your judgments	1
accomplishments	1
according to his deeds	1
according to the work	1
and according to the work	1
and hasten his work	1
and let her works	1
and mission	1
and works	1
and you must not follow the practices	1
are his concern	1
are the work	1
are the works	1
are your deeds	1
at the works	1
away from their work	1
baking	1
blended	1
braided	1
by their actions	1
construction	1
crop	1
embroidered	1
everything	1
fashioned	1
fit for its task	1
for its construction	1
for what they have done	1
from wrongdoing	1
has a case against me	1
has accomplished	1
has done	1
he has made	1
he made	1
his actions	1
his deeds	1
in his works	1
in the case	1
in the labor	1
in your works	1
it is shaped	1
judgment	1
just as	1
like	1
like cords	1
like the design	1
man-made	1
my case	1
my handiwork	1
my justice	1
my pursuits	1
my verses	1
of	1
of the produce	1
of the same workmanship	1
of the works	1
of their deeds	1
of work	1
she does	1
styled	1
such works	1
that he did	1
that we have accomplished	1
the acts	1
the deeds	1
the handiwork	1
the parts	1
the things	1
the work of	1
the workmanship	1
their actions	1
their customs	1
their practices	1
their workmanship	1
they do their works	1
they have fashioned	1
this trouble began	1
to destruction	1
was a work	1
was constructed	1
was the design	1
were made	1
were the work	1
what he has done	1
what is formed	1
whose business	1
with the work	1
with their works	1
worked into it	1
worked into them	1
workmanship	1
works	1
works like yours	1
you have made	1
your produce	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the work	32
work	26
thy works	6
and the work	5
the works	5
their works	5
according to the work	4
his work	4
all the work	3
in all his works	3
needlework	3
with the work	3
with the works	3
works	3
after the art	2
all the works	2
all these works	2
and their work	2
are thy works	2
but the work	2
deeds	2
every work	2
his works	2
in every work	2
like the work	2
not the works	2
of network	2
of the wares of thy making	2
thee in all the work	2
with all the works	2
your occupation	2
according to all the works	1
according to his work	1
according to these their works	1
according to thy works	1
acts	1
after the doings	1
after the work	1
after their works	1
against thee and because his works	1
all his works	1
all of it the work	1
all our works	1
all their works	1
all thy works	1
all wrought	1
and according to the works	1
and after the doings	1
and all his works	1
and all the acts	1
and all the works	1
and all work	1
and for every work	1
and his acts	1
and in all the works	1
and in every work	1
and instead of well set	1
and let her own works	1
and not after the doings	1
and their works	1
and this work	1
and thy works	1
and your works	1
any more to the work	1
any of their works	1
art	1
because the work	1
for his work	1
for shall the work	1
from his work	1
from their works	1
handywork	1
him all the works	1
his whole work	1
in all the labours	1
in his own works	1
in his works	1
in the works	1
in them such things as they offered	1
in thy labours	1
in thy works	1
like unto thy works	1
no work	1
nor the operation	1
nor yet the works	1
of bakemeats	1
of his doing	1
of his works	1
of it according to all the workmanship	1
of it like the work	1
of needlework	1
of the same according to the work	1
of the things which i have made	1
of thy labours	1
of thy works	1
on all the works	1
on the work	1
over all his works	1
over the things that were made	1
over the works	1
purpose	1
shall we do	1
the business	1
the labour	1
the operation	1
thee in all the works	1
thee in all thy works	1
them after the work	1
themselves with their works	1
thereof was wrought	1
thou the work	1
through the work	1
thy work	1
to the work	1
to them according to all the acts	1
unto every work	1
unto them what deed	1
upon it shall be of the same according to the work	1
upon us yea the work	1
us concerning our work	1
was of the like work	1
whose possessions	1
with their own works	1
working	1
wrought	1
wrought with needlework	1
your works	1

Verses containing H4639

Page 1 of 5. 221 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Genesis 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
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Genesis 20:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
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Genesis 40:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
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Genesis 44:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
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Genesis 46:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
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Genesis 47:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
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Exodus 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
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Exodus 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
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Exodus 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Teach them the statutes and laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.
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Exodus 23:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
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Exodus 23:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
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Exodus 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
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Exodus 24:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
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Exodus 26:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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Exodus 26:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
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Exodus 26:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
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Exodus 27:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
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Exodus 27:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
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Exodus 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.
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Exodus 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
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Exodus 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
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Exodus 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.
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Exodus 28:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
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Exodus 28:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.
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Exodus 28:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
with an opening at its top in the center. Around the opening shall be a woven collar with an opening like that of a garment, so that it will not tear.
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Exodus 28:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.
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Exodus 30:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
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Exodus 30:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
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Exodus 32:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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Exodus 34:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
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Exodus 36:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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Exodus 36:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
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Exodus 36:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,
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Exodus 37:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
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Exodus 38:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
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Exodus 38:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
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Exodus 39:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
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Exodus 39:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Exodus 39:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He made the breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod, with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
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Exodus 39:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.
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Exodus 39:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth, the work of a weaver,
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Exodus 39:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Aaron and his sons they made tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver,
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Exodus 39:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the sash of finely spun linen, embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Leviticus 18:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
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Numbers 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.
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Numbers 16:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:
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Numbers 31:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”
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Numbers 31:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.
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Deuteronomy 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
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Deuteronomy 3:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
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