Definition

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

Etymology

from H6213 (עָשָׂה);

Where the KJV renders it

• act
• art
• bakemeat
• business
• deed
• do(-ing)
• labor
• thing made
• ware of making
• occupation
• thing offered
• operation
• possession
• well
• (handy-
• needle-
• net-) work(ing
• -manship)
• wrought

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.