--- title: יָצַר — form · The Tanakh dictionary description: יָצַר (3335), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 44 times: form. BDB 1906: vb. form, fashion Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3335.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [י](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1497-4.md)‎ / יָצַר‎ # יָצַר «יָצַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **form** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 44 times · **Key:** 3335 · **BDB:** יָצַר ### Glosses the.\[one (6); I (4); \[who\].formed (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) form [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3335/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. form, fashion Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3335/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. form, fashion (NH in pt. יוֹצֵר potter, creator, and deriv.; Ph. יצר potter; 𝔗 יצר; Syriac ܝܰܨܪܳܐ = יֵצֶר, etc.; Arabic وِصْرٌ covenant, contract; Assyrian êṣêru, as Heb., DlHWB 309)— Pf. י׳ Is 44:10; יָצָ֑ר Gn 2:8; sf. יְצָרָהּ Is 45:18; 2 m. יָצַרְתָּ ψ 104:26 + 8 times Pf.; Impf. 3 m. וַיִּ֫יצֶר Gn 2:7; וַיִּצֶ֫ר v 19; sf. יִצְּרֵהוּ Is 44:12; 1 s. sf. אֶצָּו֯רְךָ Je 1:5; Pt. יוֹצֵר Is 41:25 + 20 times; יֹצֵר 45:18 + 6 times; sf. יֹצְרִי 49:5 + 11 times sf.; pl. יוֹצְרִים 30:14 1 Ch 4:23; cstr. יֹצְרֵי Is 44:9;— of human activity: of a potter who forms out of clay a vessel Is 29:16; 41:25 Je 18:4(×2), 6(×2) 1 Ch 4:23 La 4:2 Zc 11:13(×2) (these last two according to Thes SS et al. error for אוֹצָר); כְּלִי (ה)י׳ potter’s vessel 2 S 17:28 ψ 2:9 Je 19:11; חֹמֶר הי׳ potter’s clay Is 29:16; נֵבֶל י׳ 30:14; בַּקְבֻּק י׳ Je 19:1; בית הי׳ 18:2, 3. of a carver of wood, graven images Is 44:9, 10, 12 Hb 2:18(×2). frame, devise in the mind י׳ עָמָל ψ 94:20. of divine activity: (as a potter) forming Adam out of עפר from אדמה Gn 2:7, 8 (J), beasts and birds, also from אדמה v 19 (J); Israel as a people Is 27:11; 43:1, 21; 44:21; 45:9(×2), 11; 64:7, even from the womb 44:2, 24; the servant of Yahweh from the womb 49:5; of the formation of the individual man 43:7; Jeremiah in the womb Je 1:5; the eye of man ψ 94:9; the locust Am 7:1; Leviathan ψ 104:26; the dry land 95:5; the earth Is 45:18(×2); the mountains Am 4:13; הַכֹּל Je 10:16 = 51:19. Fig. perhaps lost sight of in some of the above, and quite certainly in the forming of light Is 45:7, of summer and winter ψ 74:17, the רוּחַ of man Zc 12:1, and the לב of men ψ 33:15. fig. for frame, pre-ordain, plan (in divine purpose), of a situation מֵרָחוֹק Is 22:11; of an occurrence מִימֵי קֶדֶם 37:26 = 2 K 19:25; יָצַרְתִּי אַף אֶעֱשֶׂנָּה I have planned, I will also do it 46:11; י׳ רעה על Je 18:11; י׳ לַהֲכִינָהּ devised it to establish it 33:2. Pf. לְפָנַי לֹא־נוֹצַר אֵל Is 43:10 before me a god was not formed (created). Pf. יָמִים יֻצָּ֑רוּ days (that) were pre-ordained (in the divine purpose) ψ 139:16 (cf. Qal, 2 b). Impf. כָּל־כְּלִי יוּצַר עָלַיִךְ לֹא יִצְלָ֑ח Is 54:17 any weapon that is formed against thee will not prosper. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (27 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «יָצַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3335/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Isaiah 43:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.21/) עַם־זוּ֙ יָצַ֣רְתִּי לִ֔י תְּהִלָּתִ֖י יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ס *Word for word:* a.people which I.formed for myself praise my they.will.recount *JPS 1917:* The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise. [Psalms 94:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.20/) הַֽ֭יְחָבְרְךָ כִּסֵּ֣א הַוּ֑וֹת יֹצֵ֖ר עָמָ֣ל עֲלֵי־חֹֽק׃ *Word for word:* will it be.joined.to.you? a.throne of.destruction(s) \[one.who\].fashions mischief on a.decree *JPS 1917:* Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute? - ← previous: [יְצֻקָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3333.md) - next →: [יֵצֶר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3336.md) - ↑ back to [י](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1497-4.md)