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# מַעֲשֵׂיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Maaseiah** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Maaseiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b5_5c2_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲשֵׂיָהוּ: pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b5_5c2_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** † מַעֲשֵׂיָהוּ -יָה, מַעֲשַׂי n. pr.m. (work of י׳; cf. n.pr. מעשיהו on Isr. seal, Cl-Gann, v. Lzb315);—Μα(α)σσαια(ς), etc., 𝔊 B Ezr 10:21 Μασαηλ:— priest, Je.’s time, מַעֲשֵׂיָה Je 21:1; 29:25; 37:3; perhaps 35:4 (-יָהוּ). 29:21. מַעֲשֵׂיָהוּ Levites: 1 Ch 15:18, 20. 2 Ch 23:1. officials: 26:11. 34:8. son of Ahaz 28:7. Levite 1 Ch 6:25 reading מַעֲשֵׂיָה for MT בַּעֲשֵׂיָה q.v., cf. Kit. מַעֲשֵׂיָה of various post-exil. men: Ne 3:23 (Μαδασηλ, A Μαασιου). 8:4, 7. 10:26. 11:5. v 7. 12:41. v 42. Ezr 10:18. v 21 (Μασαηλ, Μασειας). v 22. v 30. מַעֲשַׂי (van d. H. מַעְשַׂי) Μα(α)σαι(α), a priest 1 Ch 9:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Maaseiah (6); of Maaseiah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 15:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.20/#tree)

וּזְכַרְיָ֨ה וַעֲזִיאֵ֜ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֤וֹת וִֽיחִיאֵל֙ וְעֻנִּ֣י וֶֽאֱלִיאָ֔ב וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֖הוּ וּבְנָיָ֑הוּ בִּנְבָלִ֖ים עַל־עֲלָמֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah with lyres on alamoth

*JPS 1917:* and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;

[2 Chronicles 28:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.28.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.28.7/#tree)

וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֞ג זִכְרִ֣י ׀ גִּבּ֣וֹר אֶפְרַ֗יִם אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְאֶת־עַזְרִיקָ֖ם נְגִ֣יד הַבָּ֑יִת וְאֶת־אֶלְקָנָ֖ה מִשְׁנֵ֥ה הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.killed Zikri (the).warrior of.Ephraim (et) Maaseiah the.son of the.king and (et) Azrikam the.officer of the.house and (et) Elkanah the.second of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b5_5c2_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e9_5b5_5c2_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).