Deed
King James Dictionary [1]
DEED, n.
1. That which is done, acted or effected an act a fact a word of extensive application, including whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
And Joseph said to them, what deed is this which ye have done? Gen. x1iv.
We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke 25
2. Exploit achievement illustrious act.
Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn.
3. Power of action agency.
With will and deed created free.
4. A writing containing some contract or agreement, and the evidence of its execution particularly, an instrument on paper or parchment, conveying real estate to a purchaser or donee. This instrument must be executed, and the execution attested, in the manner prescribed by law.
Indeed, in fact in reality. These words are united and called an adverb. But sometimes they are separated by very, in very deed a more emphatical expression. Exodus 9
DEED, To convey or transfer by deed a popular use of the word in America as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( a.) Dead.
(2): ( v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; - a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
(3): ( v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.
(4): ( v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency.
(5): ( v. t.) Fact; reality; - whence we have indeed.
(6): ( v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
(7): ( v. t.) Performance; - followed by of.
(8): ( v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
dēd : Used in its ordinary modern sense in EV. In the Old Testament it is used to translates five Hebrew words: gemūlāh , literally, "recompense" ( Isaiah 59:18 ); dābhār , literally, "word," "thing" ( 2 Chronicles 35:27 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "acts"; Esther 1:17 , Esther 1:18; Jeremiah 5:28 ); ma‛ăseh ( Genesis 20:9; Genesis 44:15; Ezra 9:13 ); ‛ălı̄lāh ( 1 Chronicles 16:8 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "doings"; Psalm 105:1 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "doings"); pō‛al ( Psalm 28:4 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "work"; Jeremiah 25:14 ). In the New Testament "deed" very frequently translates ἔργον , érgon (same root as English "work"; compare "energy"), which is still more frequently (espescially in the Revised Version (British and American)) rendered "work." In Luke 23:51; Acts 19:18; Romans 8:13; Colossians 3:9 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "doings," it stands for Greek πρᾶξις , práxis (literally, "a doing," "transaction"), each time in a bad sense, equivalent to wicked deed, crime, a meaning which is frequently associated with the plural of praxis (compare English "practices" in the sense of trickery; so often in Polybius; Deissmann maintains that praxis was a technical term in magic), although in Matthew 16:27 (the King James Version "works") and Romans 12:4 the same Greek word has a neutral meaning. In James 1:25 the King James Version "deed" is the translation of Greek ποίησις , poı́ēsis , more correctly rendered "doing" in the Revised Version (British and American).
