עָשָׂה ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Translated in the KJV as accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly.
a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.
ʻâsâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 757Imperfect (yiqtol) 486Wayyiqtol 361Infinitive construct 298Participle (active) 239Sequential perfect (weqatal) 227Imperative 100Jussive 30Participle (passive) 17Infinitive absolute 15Cohortative 6
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 51Perfect (qatal) 36Jussive 4Participle (passive) 4Infinitive construct 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 2
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›