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title: יֹוצֵר — form · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֹוצֵר (lemma:יֹוצֵר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: form. BDB 1906: n.m. form, framing, purpose. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֹוצֵר

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«יֹוצֵר» 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:** 17 times · **Key:** lemma:יֹוצֵר · **BDB:** יֵ֫צֶר

### Glosses

the.potter (6); of.a.potter (4); potter (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

form [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_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_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (27 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יֹוצֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.9/)

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תְּ֭רֹעֵם בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט בַּרְזֶ֑ל כִּכְלִ֖י יוֹצֵ֣ר תְּנַפְּצֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* you will.break.them with a.rod of.iron like a.vessel of.a.potter you will.smash.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'

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[Jeremiah 18:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.3/)

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וָאֵרֵ֖ד בֵּ֣ית הַיּוֹצֵ֑ר וְהִנֵּה־ה֛וּאעֹשֶׂ֥ה מְלָאכָ֖ה עַל־הָאָבְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and I.went.down the.house of the.potter and there he \[was\].doing work on the stones

*JPS 1917:* Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was at his work on the wheels.

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