'Makes' in the Bible

The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

“If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and makes an inspection and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has not reappeared.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the Lord.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the Lord,

If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

“Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

“The Lord kills and makes alive;He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

“The Lord makes poor and rich;He brings low, He also exalts.

For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.”

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,And sets me on my high places.

“You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,And Your help makes me great.

Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades,And the chambers of the south;

“He makes counselors walk barefootAnd makes fools of judges.

“He makes priests walk barefootAnd overthrows the secure ones.

“He makes the nations great, then destroys them;He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

“He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s peopleAnd makes them wander in a pathless waste.

“They grope in darkness with no light,And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

“I listened to the reproof which insults me,And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

“For He pays a man according to his work,And makes him find it according to his way.

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earthAnd makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

“Do you know how God establishes them,And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

“Is it at your command that the eagle mounts upAnd makes his nest on high?

“He makes the depths boil like a pot;He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

“Behind him he makes a wake to shine;One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

The God who girds me with strengthAnd makes my way blameless?

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,And sets me upon my high places.

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,And Your right hand upholds me;And Your gentleness makes me great.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,And Sirion like a young wild ox.

The voice of the Lord makes the deer to calveAnd strips the forests bare;And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;He burns the chariots with fire.

You have made Your people experience hardship;You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

God makes a home for the lonely;He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;He makes the clouds His chariot;He walks upon the wings of the wind;

He makes the winds His messengers,Flaming fire His ministers.

And wine which makes man’s heart glad,So that he may make his face glisten with oil,And food which sustains man’s heart.

And there He makes the hungry to dwell,So that they may establish an inhabited city,

He pours contempt upon princesAnd makes them wander in a pathless waste.

But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,And makes his families like a flock.

He makes the barren woman abide in the houseAs a joyful mother of children.Praise the Lord!

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;Who makes lightnings for the rain,Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Who covers the heavens with clouds,Who provides rain for the earth,Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

He makes peace in your borders;He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat.

The proverbs of Solomon.A wise son makes a father glad,But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,And He adds no sorrow to it.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,But a good word makes it glad.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable,But the mouth of fools spouts folly.

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

A wise son makes a father glad,But a foolish man despises his mother.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A man’s gift makes room for himAnd brings him before great men.

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,And he who hurries his footsteps errs.

A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

A rascally witness makes a mockery of justice,And the mouth of the wicked spreads iniquity.

A wicked man displays a bold face,But as for the upright, he makes his way sure.

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

A faithful man will abound with blessings,But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.

A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.

She girds herself with strengthAnd makes her arms strong.

She makes coverings for herself;Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

She makes linen garments and sells them,And supplies belts to the tradesmen.

For oppression makes a wise man mad,And a bribe corrupts the heart.

Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.

Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

He it is who reduces rulers to nothing,Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

“Who has aroused one from the eastWhom He calls in righteousness to His feet?He delivers up nations before himAnd subdues kings.He makes them like dust with his sword,As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

Thus says the Lord,Who makes a way through the seaAnd a path through the mighty waters,

Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.

Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

“Those who lavish gold from the purseAnd weigh silver on the scaleHire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;They bow down, indeed they worship it.

That you have forgotten the Lord your Maker,Who stretched out the heavensAnd laid the foundations of the earth,That you fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor,As he makes ready to destroy?But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Yes, truth is lacking;And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.Now the Lord saw,And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

And give Him no rest until He establishesAnd makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;He makes lightning for the rain,And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Give glory to the Lord your God,Before He brings darknessAnd before your feet stumbleOn the dusky mountains,And while you are hoping for lightHe makes it into deep darkness,And turns it into gloom.

Thus says the Lord,“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankindAnd makes flesh his strength,And whose heart turns away from the Lord.

“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;In the midst of his days it will forsake him,And in the end he will be a fool.”

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;He makes lightning for the rainAnd brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.

All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.

Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”

And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Ephraim feeds on wind,And pursues the east wind continually;He multiplies lies and violence.Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria,And oil is carried to Egypt.

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what are His thoughts,He who makes dawn into darknessAnd treads on the high places of the earth,The Lord God of hosts is His name.

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;He dries up all the rivers.Bashan and Carmel wither;The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,Even mockery and insinuations against himAnd say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—For how long—And makes himself rich with loans?’

The Lord God is my strength,And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,And makes me walk on my high places.For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.