Make
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to do, to make," is used in the latter sense (a) of constructing or producing anything, of the creative acts of God, e.g., Matthew 19:4 (2nd part); Acts 17:24; of the acts of human beings, e.g., Matthew 17:4; Acts 9:39; (b) with nouns denoting a state or condition, to be the author of, to cause, e.g., peace, Ephesians 2:15; James 3:18; stumbling blocks, Romans 16:17; (c) with nouns involving the idea of action (or of something accomplished by action), so as to express the idea of the verb more forcibly (the Middle Voice is commonly used in this respect, suggesting the action as being of special interest to the doer); for the Active Voice see, e.g., Mark 2:23 , of "making" one's way, where the idea is not that the disciples "made" a path through the standing corn, but simply that they went, the phrase being equivalent to going, "(they began) as they went (to pluck the ears);" other instances of the Active are Revelation 13:13,14; 16:14; 19:20; for the Middle Voice (the dynamic or subjective Middle), see, e.g., John 14:23 , "will make our abode;" in Acts 20:24 , "none of these things move me," lit., "I make account of none of these things;" Acts 25:17 , "I made no delay," RV; Romans 15:26; Ephesians 4:16; Hebrews 1:2; 2—Peter 1:10; (d) to "make" ready or prepare, e.g., a dinner, Luke 14:12; a supper, John 12:2; (e) to acquire, provide a thing for oneself, Matthew 25:16; Luke 19:18; (f) to render or "make" one or oneself anything, or cause a person or thing to become something, e.g., Matthew 4:19; 12:16 , "make (Him known);" John 5:11,15 , to "make" whole; John 16:2 , lit., "they shall make (you put out of the synagogue);" Ephesians 2:14; Hebrews 1:7; to change one thing into another, Matthew 21:13; John 2:16; 4:46; 1—Corinthians 6:15; (g) to constitute one anything, e.g., Acts 2:36; (h) to declare one or oneself anything, John 5:18 , "making (Himself equal with God);" John 8:53; 10:33; 19:7,12; 1—John 1:10; 5:10; (i) to "make" one do a thing, e.g., Luke 5:34; John 6:10; Revelation 3:9 . See Do , No. 1, and other renderings there.
"to put," is used in the same way as No. 1 (f), Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; 1—Corinthians 9:18 (of making the Gospel without charge); Hebrews 1:13; 10:13; 2—Peter 2:6; as No. 1 (g), Acts 20:28; Romans 4:17 . See Appoint , No. 3.
"to covenant," is rendered "I will make" (the noun diatheke, "a covenant," being expressed additionally), in the Middle Voice, in Acts 3:25; Hebrews 8:10; 10:16 , lit., "I will covenant" (see Rv , marg.). See Appoint , No. 4.
"to set down, set in order, appoint," is used in the same way as No. 1 (g) in Acts 7:10,27,35; Hebrews 7:28 , AV (RV, "appointeth"); as No. 1 (f) in Romans 5:19 (twice). See Appoint , No. 2.
"to commend, prove, establish," is used in Galatians 2:18 , much as in No. 1 (g), "I make myself (a transgressor)," i.e., "I constitute (or prove) myself, etc." See Approve , No. 2.
"to give," is used in 2—Thessalonians 3:9 in much the same sense as No. 1 (g), "to make (ourselves an ensample)"; in Revelation 3:9 (1st part), RV, "I will give," the sense is virtually the same as poieo in the 2nd part of the verse, see No. 1 (i). See Give.
"to complete," is translated "to make" in Hebrews 8:5 (1st part), RV marg., "complete" [in the 2nd part No. 1 is used in sense (a)]. See Accomplish.
"to end, fulfil," is translated "I will make" in Hebrews 8:8 , said of the New Covenant. See End.
"to be," is translated "make" in Mark 12:42 , lit., "which is (a farthing)."
primarily, "to claim," is used in the Middle Voice with the meaning "to make as if," in Luke 24:28 , of the Lord's action regarding the two on the way to Emmaus. In the Sept., 1—Samuel 21:13; Job 19:14 .
"to hold fast" (kata, "down," intensive, echo, "to hold"), is used of "making" for a place, in Acts 27:40 , RV, "they made for" (AV, "they made toward"). See Hold.
"to render fit ('fitted'; artos, 'a joint') beforehand," is used in 2—Corinthians 9:5 , "to make up beforehand."
Hebrews 9:2 Ephesians 2:15 Acts 26:16 Galatians 3:16 Luke 14:31 Romans 14:19 Acts 22:1 Luke 19:16Gain
King James Dictionary [2]
MAKE, pret. and pp. made.
1. To compel to constrain.
They should be made to rise at an early hour.
2. 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
God not only made, but created not only made the work, but the materials.
3. To create to cause to exist to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds. 4. To compose to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount.
The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the deity.
5. To form by art.
And art with her contending, doth aspire
T'excel the natural with made delights.
6. To produce or effect, as the agent.
Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. Judges 16
7. To produce, as the cause to procure to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops.
Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19
8. To do to perform to execute as, to make a journey to make a long voyage. 9. To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud beauty may make a woman vain a due sense of human weakness should make us humble. 10. To bring into any state or condition to constitute.
See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Exodus 7
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exodus 2
11. To contract to establish as, to make friendship. 12. To keep as, to make abode. 13. To raise to good fortune to secure in riches or happiness as when it is said, he is made for this world.
Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
14. To suffer.
He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.
15. To incur as, to make a loss. Improper. 16. To commit to do.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made. Little used.
17. To intend or to do to purpose to do.
Gomez, what mak'st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? Not used.
We now say, what doest thou here?
18. To raise, as, profit to gain to collect as, to make money in trade or by husbandry to make an estate by steady industry. 19. 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. 20. To reach to arrive at as, to make a port or harbor a seaman's phrase. 21. To gain by advance as, to make little way with a head wind we made our way to the next village. This phrase often implies difficulty. 22. To provide as, to make a dinner or entertainment. 23. To put or place as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience. 24. To turn to convert, as to use.
Whate'er they catch,
Their fury makes an instrument of war.
25. To represent. He is not the fool you make him, that is, as your representation exhibits him. 26. To constitute to form. It is melancholy to think that sensual pleasure makes the happiness of a great part of mankind. 27. To induce to cause. Self-confidence makes a man rely too much on his own strength and resources. 28. To put into a suitable or regular form for use as, to make a bed. 29. To fabricate to forge. He made the story himself. 30. To compose to form and write as, to make verses or an oration. 31. To cure to dry and prepare for preservation as, to make hay.
To make amends, to make good to give adequate compensation to replace the value or amount of loss.
To make account of, to esteem to regard.
To make away, to kill to destroy.
1. To make free with, to treat with freedom to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.
I'll either die, or I'll make good the place.
1. To fulfill to accomplish as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement. 2. To make compensation for to supply an equivalent as, to make good a loss or damage.
To make light of, to consider as of no consequence to treat with indifference or contempt.
They made light of it, and went their way. Matthew 22
To make love,
To make suit, to court to attempt to gain the favor or affection.
To make merry, to feast to be joyful or jovial.
To make much of, to treat with fondness or esteem to consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure.
To make of, to understand. He knows not what to make of the news, that is, he does not well understand it he knows not how to consider or view it.
1. To produce from to effect.
I am astonished that those who have appeared against this paper, have made so very little of it.
2. To consider to account to esteem.
Makes she no more of me than of a slave?
To make over, to transfer the title of to convey to alienate. He made over his estate in trust or in fee.
To make out, to learn to discover to obtain a clear understanding of. I cannot make out the meaning or sense of this difficult passage. Antiquaries are not able to make out the inscription on this medal.
1. To prove to evince to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.
In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested.
2. To furnish to find or supply. He promised to pay, but was not able to make out the money or the whole sum.
To make sure of, to consider as certain.
1. To secure to one's possession as, to make sure of the game.
To make up, to collect into a sum or mass as, to make up the amount of rent to make up a bundle or package.
1. To reconcile to compose as, to make up a difference or quarrel. 2. To repair as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13 . 3. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. 4. To compose, as ingredients or parts.
Oh, he was all made up of love and charms!
The parties among us are made up of moderate whigs and presbyterians.
5. To shape as, to make up a mass into pills. 6. To assume a particular form of features as, to make up a face whence, to make up a lip, is to pout. 7. To compensate to make good as, to make up a loss. 8. To settle to adjust, or to arrange for settlement as, to make up accounts. 9. To determine to bring to a definite conclusion as, to make up one's mind.
In seamen's language, to make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already extended.
To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost.
To make water, to leak.
To make words, to multiply words.
MAKE, 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.
1. To contribute to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage. 2. To rise to flow toward land as, the tide makes fast.
To make as if, to show to appear to carry appearance.
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Joshua 8
To make away with, to kill to destroy.
To make for, to move towards to direct a course towards as, we apprehended a tempest approaching, and made for a harbor.
1. To tend to advantage to favor. A war between commercial nations makes for the interest of neutrals.
To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.
To make out, to succeed to have success at last. He made out to reconcile the contending parties.
To make up, to approach. He made up to us with boldness.
To make up for, to compensate to supply by an equivalent.
Have you a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone?
To make up with, to settle differences to become friends.
To make with, to concur.
MAKE, n. 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,
Is our perfection of so frail a make
As every plot can undermine and shake?
MAKE, n. Eng. match L. par. A companion a mate.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
(2): ( v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
(3): ( v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
(4): ( v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
(5): ( v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; - often with up; as, to make up a story.
(6): ( v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; - often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
(7): ( v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
(8): ( v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
(9): ( v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
(10): ( v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; - with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
(11): ( v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.
(12): ( v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
(13): ( v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; - followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
(14): ( v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
(15): ( v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
(16): ( v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.
(17): ( n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
(18): ( v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
(19): ( v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; - often in the phrase to meddle or make.
(20): ( v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
(21): ( v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
(22): ( v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
MAKE. In Judges 18:3 ‘to make’ means ‘to do’ ‘What makest thou in this place?’ In John 8:53 ‘Whom makest thou thyself?’, and John 19:7 ‘He made himself the Son of God,’ ‘make’ means ‘pretend to be’; cf. Joshua 8:15 ‘Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten.’ This is the meaning also in 2 Samuel 13:5 ‘Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick.’ In Ezekiel 17:17 ‘Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war,’ ‘make for’ means ‘assist.’
