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Leviticus 18:3

“After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מַעֲשֶׂהmaʻăseh · mah-as-eh'
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: כְּ — preposition
מַעֲשֵׂ֧ה — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
Code HR/Ncmsc
Usage: Occurs 235 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 5:29 Genesis 20:9 Genesis 40:17 Genesis 44:15 Genesis 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.

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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.