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1 Kings 7:33
“And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מַעֲשֶׂהmaʻăseh · mah-as-eh'
H4639 · Hebrew
H4639 · Hebrew
- Definition
- an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
- Derivation
- from H6213 (עָשָׂה);
- KJV renderings
- 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.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מַֽעֲשֵׂה֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 235 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:29Genesis 20:9Genesis 40:17Genesis 44:15Genesis 46:33
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַעֲשֶׂה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.