יָצַרyâtsar

form, fashion

Pronunciation: yaw-tsar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3335

Meanings

Qal

1. of human activity

a. potter's vessel, potter's clay (Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 18:4)

c. frame, devise (Psalms 94:20)

2. of divine activity

b. frame, pre-ordain, plan (Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 37:26; 2 Kings 19:25)

Niph`al: before me a god was not formed (Isaiah 43:10)

Pu`al: days, were pre-ordained (Psalms 139:16)

Hoph`al: any weapon that is formed against thee will not prosper (Isaiah 54:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 62 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
  • Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
  • Genesis 2:19 So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
  • 2 Samuel 17:28 They brought sleeping mats, cooking pots, serving bowls, wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans, lentils,
  • 2 Kings 19:25 “But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.
  • 1 Chronicles 4:23 They were the pottery makers who lived in Netaim and Gederah. They lived there and worked for the king.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).