Create – To produce something from nothing.
God used this word in its various forms 106 times in Scripture: 71 times to Israel in their Masoretic Text Old Testament; 4 times to Israel in their Koine Greek Old Testament; 21 times to the Body of Christ in the Dispensation of Grace (Romans-Philemon); and 10 times to Israel in their tribulation books (Hebrews-Revelation).
Make and Create are as different as day/night, up/down, light/darkness, heaven/earth: Make and Create are not synonyms.
The obvious example in Scripture is that in Genesis 1, on the sixth day of creation, God Created mankind, men and women at the same time; produced them from nothing. Then in Genesis 2, well after the end of creation, God Made a person that he named Adam; formed from the dust of the ground. Then, in the Garden, after Adam had named all of the animals, God Made a woman; formed from the rib of Adam.
Everything, both animate and inanimate, that God created is called a creature.
In the Dispensation of Grace, members of the Body of Christ are a New Creature, produced from nothing; a species that didn’t exist before the Gospel of Grace. Becoming a member of the Body of Christ is not a transformation or conversion. Members of the Body of Christ are a new creature.
See also Convert, Make