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# מַעֲשֵׂיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4641

**Maaseiah** — used 16 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/1502/4641/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲשֵׂיָהוּ: pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4641/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (10); of Maaseiah (6).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.26/#tree)

רְח֥וּם חֲשַׁבְנָ֖ה מַעֲשֵׂיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Rehum Hashabnah Maaseiah

*JPS 1917:* Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah;

[Ezra 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.22/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֖י פַּשְׁח֑וּר אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י מַֽעֲשֵׂיָה֙ יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל נְתַנְאֵ֔ל יוֹזָבָ֖ד וְאֶלְעָשָֽׂה׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.sons of.Pashhur Elioenai Maaseiah Ishmael Nethanel Jozabad and Eleasah

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4641.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4641/): 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).