Strong's Lexicon: H3335 יָצַר

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3335
Word:	יָצַר
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	probably identical with H3334 (through the squeezing into shape)
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	64
Transliteration:	yatsar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	yaw-tsar'
Meaning:	1. to mould into a form 2. especially as a potter 3. (figuratively) to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
KJV Renderings:	X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.

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BDB3675

יָצַר verb form, fashion (Late Hebrew in participle יוֺצֵר potter, creator, and derivatives; Phoenician יצר potter; ᵑ7 יצר Syriac [untranscribed source text 2277] = יֵצֶר etc.; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2278] covenant, contract; Assyrian êƒêru, as Hebrew, Dl^{HWB 309}) —

Qal Perfect ׳ י Isa 44:10 יָצָ֑ר Gen 2:8 suffix יְצָרָהּ Isa 45:18 2 masculine יָצַרְתָּ Ps 104:26 + 8 t. Perfect; Imperfect 3 masculine וַיִּ֫יצֶר Gen 2:7 וַיִּ֫צֶר Gen 2:19 suffix יִצְּרֵהוּ Isa 44:12 1 singular suffix אֶצֳּו֯רְךָ Jer 1:5 Participle יוֺצֵר Isa 41:25 + 20 t.; יֹצֵר Isa 45:18 + 6 t.; suffix יֹצְרִי Isa 49:5 + 11 t. suffix; plural יוֺצְרִים Isa 30:14; 1Chr 4:23 construct יֹצְרֵי Isa 44:9 —

1. of human activity:

a. of a potter who forms out of clay a vessel Isa 29:16; Isa 41:25; Jer 18:4 (twice in verse); Jer 18:6 (twice in verse); 1Chr 4:23; Lam 4:2; Zech 11:13 (twice in verse) (these last two according to Thes SS et al. error for אוֺצָר); ׳ כְּלִי (ה)י potter's vessel 2Sam 17:28 ; Ps 2:9; Jer 19:11 ׳ חֹמֶר הי potter's clay Isa 29:16 ׳ נֵבֶל י Isa 30:14 ׳ בַּקְבֻּק י Jer 19:1 ׳ בית הי Jer 18:2; Jer 18:3.

b. of a carver of wood, graven images Isa 44:9; Isa 44:10; Isa 44:12; Hab 2:18 (twice in verse).

c. frame, devise in the mind עָמָל ׳ י Ps 94:20 .

2. of divine activity:

a. (as a potter) forming Adam out of עפר from אדמה Gen 2:7; Gen 2:8 ( J ), beasts and birds, also from אדמה Gen 2:19 ( J ); Israel as a people Isa 27:11; Isa 43:1; Isa 43:21; Isa 44:21; Isa 45:9 (twice in verse); Isa 45:11 ; Isa 64:7 , even from the womb Isa 44:2; Isa 44:24 the servant of Yahweh from the womb Isa 49:5 of the formation of the individual man Isa 43:7 Jeremiah in the womb Jer 1:5 the eye of man Ps 94:9 the locust Amos 7:1 Leviathan Ps 104:26 the dry land Ps 95:5 the earth Isa 45:18 (twice in verse); the mountains Amos 4:13 הַכֹּל Jer 10:16 = Jer 51:19 . Figurative perhaps lost sight of in some of the above, and quite certainly in the forming of light Isa 45:7, of summer and winter Ps 74:17 , the רוּחַ of man Zech 12:1, and the לב of men Ps 33:15.

b. figurative for frame, pre-ordain, plan (in divine purpose), of a situation מֵרָחוֺק Isa 22:11 of an occurrence מִימֵי קֶדֶם Isa 37:26 = 2Kgs 19:25 יָצַרְתִּי אַף אֶעֱשֶׂנָּה I have planned, I will also do it 2Kgs 46:11 רעה על ׳ י Jer 18:11 לַהֲכִינָהּ ׳ י devised it to establish it Jer 33:2.

Niph`al Perfect לְפָנַי לֹאנֿוֺצַר אֵל Isa 43:10 before me a god was not formed (created).

Pu`al Perfect יָמִים יצָֻּ֑רוּ days (that) were pre-ordained (in the divine purpose) Ps 139:16 (compare Qal, 2.b.).

Hoph`al Imperfect כָּלכְּֿלִי יוּצַר עָלַיִךְ לֹא יִצְלָ֑ח Isa 54:17 any weapon that is formed against thee will not prosper.

BDB7016

IV. [צוּר] verb fashion, delineate (Late Hebrew id.; so Aramaic צוּר, [untranscribed source text 4488], [untranscribed source text 4489]; [untranscribed source text 4490] picture, Sabean צור, plural צורת Hom^Chrest.125 Mordtm^{Him. Inschr. 14.15}; Arabic [untranscribed source text 4491] is loan-word according to Frä²⁷²); — Perfect 2 masculine singular וְצַרְתָּ֫ Ezek 43:11 (for ᵑ0 צוּרַת) according to ᵐ5 . We Sm Co Toy Berthol Krae, and thou shalt delineate the house (compare הַגֵּד Ezek 43:10, הוֺדַע וּכְתֹב Ezek 43:11); Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיָּ֫צַר אֹתוֺ בַּחֶרֶט Exod 32:4 ( E ) and fashioned it [the gold] with a graving-tool; וַיָּ֫צַר אֶתשְֿׁנֵי הָֹעַמּוּדִים 1Kgs 7:15 (+ accusative mater.), read (יצק) וַיִּצֹּק, so ᵐ5 SS Kit Benz compare Th; 1 singular suffix אצורך Jer 1:5 Kt , see יצר

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יצר (yah-tzar’)

Genesis 2:8

KJV: And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

EHCC: the man whom he hed formed. .

Psalms 74:17

KJV: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.made: Heb. made them

EHCC: thou hast mode summer and winter.

Psalms 95:5

KJV: The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.The sea…: Heb. Whose the sea is

EHCC: his hands formed the dry (is0d). ,

Psalms 104:26

KJV: There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.made: Heb. formed

EHCC: (whom) thow Aast made to play there.

Psalms 43:7

EHCC: [have formed him; a, 1 have made hic.

Psalms 44:10

KJV: Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

EHCC: Who formed a gol.

Genesis 2:7

KJV: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.of the dust…: Heb. dust of the ground

EHCC: 4nd the Lord 4 man

Genesis 386:17

EHCC: 98 . earthen vessels, (lit. vessels of the pts!

1 Chronicles 4:23

KJV: These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

EHCC: These (were) the potters, . /

1 Chronicles 27:11

KJV: The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

EHCC: ait he that formed them wil sew BE

1 Chronicles 99:16

EHCC: shall be esteemed as te pats,

1 Chronicles 43:1

EHCC: and he that formed thee, O Isse!,

1 Chronicles 44:2

EHCC: and formed thee from the womb,

1 Chronicles 45:71

EHCC: form the a ‘and creste darko

1 Chronicles 49:5

EHCC: the Lord that forted me fom .

Jeremiah 10:16

KJV: The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

EHCC: be (a) the former 9 all (things);

Jeremiah 18:2

KJV: Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

EHCC: to the potter's house,

Jeremiah 19:1

KJV: Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

EHCC: G and gu pater extn bot,

Jeremiah 33:2

KJV: Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;the Lord is: or, Jehovah, etc

EHCC: the Lord that formed it,

Jeremiah 51:19

KJV: The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

EHCC: סם (is) the former of all things:

Lamentations 4:2

KJV: The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

EHCC: the work of the hands of the potter /

Habakkuk 2:18

KJV: What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?maker of…: Heb. fashioner of his fashion

EHCC: the maker of ath graven it 5

Zechariah 11:13

KJV: And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.

EHCC: Cast it unto the potter :

Psalms 139:16

KJV: Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.all…: Heb. all of themwhich…: or, what days they should be fashioned

EHCC: (which) in continuance were fashioned,

Isaiah 54:17

KJV: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

EHCC: No weapon that is formed against thee shal

Strong's Lexicon

H3335 — יָצַר