to bring something about: to make a thing or to do a deed, so that something now exists or has happened that did not before.
This is one of the busiest verbs in the New Testament, and its range is wide but it has a single center. In every use it points to a person bringing something about, so that afterward there is a thing, an action, or a result that was not there before. English has to split this into two words, make and do, but the Greek does not feel the split: making a thing and doing a deed are the same kind of act to this word, the producing of something real.
From that center the word fans out by what is being brought about. It makes objects (a whip, idols, tents) and it performs deeds (works, signs, sins, acts of kindness). It can take a person or thing and turn it into something else, as when Jesus says he will make fishermen into fishers of people, or when a crowd wants to make him king. With trees it means to bear or yield fruit. With a feast it means to keep or observe it, the way we still say a family keeps Christmas. With a stretch of time it means to spend or pass it. And used on its own, with no object, it simply means to act or to behave.
These are not different words that happen to sound alike; they are the same act seen against different objects. That is why one definition covers them all, and why the senses below are shades of the one idea rather than separate meanings. The reader's only real difficulty is the English one: deciding, verse by verse, whether make or do is the better word for the same Greek verb.