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title: יֵצֶר — form · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֵצֶר (3336), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: form. BDB 1906: n.m. form, framing, purpose. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֵצֶר

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«יֵצֶר» 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.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 3336 · **BDB:** יֵ֫צֶר

### Glosses

inclination (3); form (2); (the).inclination (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

form [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3336/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. form, framing, purpose [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3336/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 26:3 form, framing, purpose;—י׳ Gn 6:5 + 5 times; יִצְרוֹ Dt 31:21 Hb 2:18; יִצְרֵנוּ ψ 103:14;— pottery, formed by the potter Is 29:16. form of a graven image Hb 2:18. form of man as made of the dust ψ 103:14. of what is framed in the mind (cf. יָצַר 1 c, 2 b), imagination, device, purpose: יצר מחשׁב(ו)ת לב(ב) Gn 6:5 (J), 1 Ch 29:18; י׳ מחשׁבות 28:9; י׳ לב Gn 8:21 (J); יֵצֶר alone Dt 31:21 (J); יֵצֶר סָמוּךְ Is 26:3 a stedfast purpose (or frame of mind). (In NH יֵצֶר is common in sense of impulse: יצר הטוב and יצר הרע of good and bad tendency in man.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 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 «יֵצֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3336/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 103:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.14/)

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כִּי־ה֖וּא יָדַ֣ע יִצְרֵ֑נוּ זָ֝כ֗וּר כִּי־עָפָ֥ר אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he he.knows form our \[he.is\].remembering (dm).that \[are\].dust we

*JPS 1917:* For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

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[Isaiah 26:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.3/)

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יֵ֣צֶר סָמ֔וּךְ תִּצֹּ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם ׀ שָׁל֑וֹם כִּ֥י בְךָ֖ בָּטֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* an.inclination firm you.will.keep peace peace (dm) in you \[he.is\].trusting

*JPS 1917:* The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.

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