avad (to make) · Rightly

Meaning

To make, do(P'al) · (Ithp'al)

How it's translated

let it be done 3
doing 3
making 2
to do 2
you will do 2
he made 2
been done 1
being done 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezra 13
Daniel 11
Jeremiah 1

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 3:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
Daniel 4:2In contextI thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
Daniel 4:35In contextAnd all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Daniel 5:1In contextBelshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

All 25 verses, by book

Ezra 13: 4:15 4:19 4:22 5:8 6:8 6:11 6:12 6:13 6:16 7:18 7:21 7:23 7:26
Jeremiah 1: 10:11
Daniel 11: 2:5 3:1 3:15 3:29 4:2 4:35 5:1 6:10 6:22 6:27 7:21

Aramaic dictionary

עֲבַד avad · to make

1) to make, do 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to make, create 1a2) to do, perform 1b) (Ithp'al) 1b1) to be made into 1b2) to be done, be wrought, be performed, be executed, be carried out

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “make” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MAKE, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive made.

To compel; to constrain.
To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.“He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf” Exodus 32:4
To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing.
To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole.

All definitions and other forms of “make”

To form by art.
To produce or effect, as the agent.“Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport” Judges 16:25
To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain.“Wealth maketh many friends” Proverbs 19:4
To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.
To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration.
To bring into any state or condition; to constitute.“See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh” Exodus 7:1
To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.
To keep; as, to make abode.
To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world.
To suffer.
To incur; as, to make a loss. [Improper.]
To commit; to do.
To intend or to do; to purpose to do.
To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.
To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.
To reach; to arrive at; as, to make a port or harbor; a seaman's phrase.
To gain by advance; as, to make little way with a head wind; we made our way to the next village.
To provide; as, to make a dinner or entertainment.
To put or place; as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.
To turn; to convert, as to use.
To represent.
To constitute; to form.
To induce; to cause.
To put into a suitable or regular form for use; as, to make a bed.
To fabricate; to forge.
To compose; to form and write; as, to make verses or an oration.
To cure; to dry and prepare for preservation; as, to make hay.
To make free with, to treat with freedom; to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.
To fulfill; to accomplish; as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.
To make compensation for; to supply an equivalent; as, to make good a loss or damage.“They made light of it, and went their way” Matthew 22:5
To produce from; to effect.
To consider; to account; to esteem.
To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument.
To furnish; to find or supply.
To secure to one's possession; as, to make sure of the game.
To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.
To repair; as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13:18
To supply what is wanting.
To compose, as ingredients or parts.
To shape; as, to make up a mass into pills.
To assume a particular form of features; as, to make up a face; whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.
To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.
To settle; to adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.
To determine; to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind.

MAKE, verb intransitive

To tend; to proceed; to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.

To contribute; to have effect.
To rise; to flow toward land; as, the tide makes fast.“Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled” Joshua 8:15
To tend to advantage; to favor.

MAKE, noun

Structure; texture; constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united; as a man of slender make or feeble make

MAKE, noun

[Eng. match; Latin par.]

A companion; a mate.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.