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title: יָצַר — form · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָצַר (lemma:יָצַר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: form. BDB 1906: n.m. form, framing, purpose. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָצַר

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«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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:יָצַר · **BDB:** יֵ֫צֶר

### Glosses

potter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

form [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. form, framing, purpose [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e8/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 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/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e6_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 29:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.16/)

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הַ֨פְכְּכֶ֔ם אִם־כְּחֹ֥מֶר הַיֹּצֵ֖ר יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑ב כִּֽי־יֹאמַ֨ר מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לְעֹשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֔נִי וְיֵ֛צֶר אָמַ֥ר לְיוֹצְר֖וֹ לֹ֥א הֵבִֽין׃

*Word for word:* perversity your (if)? like clay the potter will.he.be.regarded (cmp) it.will.say a.thing.made to the.\[one who\].made.it not he made.me and a.pot it.said to potter its not he.has.understood

*JPS 1917:* O your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'

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