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Lexicon :: Strong's H3335 - yāṣar

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יָצַר
Transliteration
yāṣar
Pronunciation
yaw-tsar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably identical with יָצַר (H3334) (through the squeezing into shape), ([compare יָצַע (H3331)])
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TWOT Reference: 898

Strong’s Definitions

יָצַר yâtsar, yaw-tsar'; probably identical with H3334 (through the squeezing into shape); (compare H3331); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution):—× earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x

The KJV translates Strong's H3335 in the following manner: form (26x), potter (17x), fashion (5x), maker (4x), frame (3x), make (3x), former (2x), earthen (1x), purposed (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x
The KJV translates Strong's H3335 in the following manner: form (26x), potter (17x), fashion (5x), maker (4x), frame (3x), make (3x), former (2x), earthen (1x), purposed (1x).

  1. to form, fashion, frame

    1. (Qal) to form, fashion

      1. of human activity

      2. of divine activity

        1. of creation

          1. of original creation

          2. of individuals at conception

          3. of Israel as a people

        2. to frame, pre-ordain, plan (fig. of divine) purpose of a situation)

    2. (Niphal) to be formed, be created

    3. (Pual) to be predetermined, be pre-ordained

    4. (Hophal) to be formed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָצַר yâtsar, yaw-tsar'; probably identical with H3334 (through the squeezing into shape); (compare H3331); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution):—× earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
STRONGS H3335: Abbreviations
† יָצַר verb form, fashion (Late Hebrew in participle יוֺצֵר potter, creator, and derivatives; Phoenician יצר potter; Targum יצר Syriac bdb042701 = יֵצֶר etc.; Arabic bdb042702 covenant, contract; Assyrian êṣêru, as Hebrew, DlHWB 309) —
Qal Perfect י׳ Isaiah 44:10; יָצָ֑ר Genesis 2:8; suffix יְצָרָהּ Isaiah 45:18; 2nd person masculine יָצַרְתָּ Psalm 104:26 + 8 times Perfect; Imperfect 3rd person masculine וַיִּ֫יצֶר Genesis 2:7; וַיִּ֫צֶר Genesis 2:19; suffix יִצְּרֵהוּ Isaiah 44:12; 1st person singular suffix אֶצֳּו֯רְךָ Jeremiah 1:5; Participle יוֺצֵר Isaiah 41:25 + 20 times; יֹצֵר Isaiah 45:18 + 6 times; suffix יֹצְרִי Isaiah 49:5 + 11 times suffix; plural יוֺצְרִים Isaiah 30:14; 1 Chronicles 4:23; construct יֹצְרֵי Isaiah 44:9; —
1. of human activity:
a. of a potter who forms out of clay a vessel Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 18:4 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 18:6 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 4:23; Lamentations 4:2; Zechariah 11:13 (twice in verse) (these last two according to Thes SS et al. error for אוֺצָר); כְּלִי (ה)י׳ potter's vessel 2 Samuel 17:28; Psalm 2:9; Jeremiah 19:11; חֹמֶר הי׳ potter's clay Isaiah 29:16; נֵבֶל י׳ Isaiah 30:14; בַּקְבֻּק י׳ Jeremiah 19:1 בית הי׳ Jeremiah 18:2, 3.
b. of a carver of wood, graven images Isaiah 44:9, 10, 12; Habakkuk 2:18 (twice in verse).
c. frame, devise in the mind עָמָל י׳ Psalm 94:20.
2. of divine activity:
a. (as a potter) forming Adam out of עפר from אדמה Genesis 2:7, 8 (J), beasts and birds, also from אדמה Genesis 2:19 (J); Israel as a people Isaiah 27:11; Isaiah 43:1, 21; Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 45:9 (twice in verse); Isaiah 45:11; Isaiah 64:7, even from the womb Isaiah 44:2, 24; the servant of Yahweh from the womb Isaiah 49:5; of the formation of the individual man Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah in the womb Jeremiah 1:5; the eye of man Psalm 94:9; the locust Amos 7:1; Leviathan Psalm 104:26; the dry land Psalm 95:5; the earth Isaiah 45:18 (twice in verse); the mountains Amos 4:13; הַכֹּל Jeremiah 10:16 = Jeremiah 51:19. Figurative perhaps lost sight of in some of the above, and quite certainly in the forming of light Isaiah 45:7, of summer and winter Psalm 74:17, the רוּחַ of man Zechariah 12:1, and the לב of men Psalm 33:15.
b. figurative for frame, pre-ordain, plan (in divine purpose), of a situation מֵרָחוֺק Isaiah 22:11; of an occurrence מִימֵי קֶדֶם Isaiah 37:26 = 2 Kings 19:25; יָצַרְתִּי אַף אֶעֱשֶׂנָּה I have planned, I will also do it Isaiah 46:11; רעה על י׳ Jeremiah 18:11; לַהֲכִינָהּ י׳ devised it to establish it Jeremiah 33:2.
Niph. Perfect לְפָנַי לֹאנֿוֺצַר אֵל Isaiah 43:10 before me a god was not formed (created).
Pu. Perfect יָמִים יצָֻּ֑רוּ days (that) were pre-ordained (in the divine purpose) Psalm 139:16 (compare Qal, 2 b).
Hoph. Imperfect כָּלכְּֿלִי יוּצַר עָלַיִךְ לֹא יִצְלָ֑ח Isaiah 54:17 any weapon that is formed against thee will not prosper.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:7; 2:7; 2:8; 2:8; 2:19; 2:19

2 Samuel

17:28

2 Kings

19:25

1 Chronicles

4:23; 4:23

Psalms

2:9; 33:15; 74:17; 94:9; 94:20; 95:5; 104:26; 104:26; 139:16

Isaiah

22:11; 27:11; 29:16; 29:16; 30:14; 30:14; 37:26; 41:25; 41:25; 43:1; 43:7; 43:10; 43:21; 44:2; 44:9; 44:9; 44:10; 44:10; 44:12; 44:12; 44:21; 44:24; 45:7; 45:9; 45:11; 45:18; 45:18; 45:18; 46:11; 49:5; 49:5; 54:17; 64:7

Jeremiah

1:5; 1:5; 10:16; 18:2; 18:3; 18:4; 18:6; 18:11; 19:1; 19:11; 33:2; 51:19

Lamentations

4:2

Amos

4:13; 7:1

Habakkuk

2:18

Zechariah

11:13; 12:1

H3335

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Strong's Number H3335 matches the Hebrew יָצַר (yāṣar),
which occurs 63 times in 56 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:7–Jer 51:19)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - brought bedding, basins, and pottery utensils. They also brought food for David and all who were with him, including wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9 - You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter's jar!'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:15 - He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:17 - You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:9 - Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 95:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5 - The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:26 - The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:16 - Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11 - You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool - but you did not trust in the one who made it; you did not depend on the one who formed it long ago!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 - When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - Now, this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:7 - everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed - yes, whom I made!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:10 - You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:21 - the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2 - This is what the LORD, the one who made you, says - the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: "Don't be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:10 - Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:21 - Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:24 - This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the LORD, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:11 - This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: "How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For this is what the LORD says, the one who created the sky - he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited - "I am the LORD, I have no peer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11 - who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - So now the LORD says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant - he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the LORD's sight, for my God is my source of strength -

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the LORD will do for his servants - I will vindicate them," says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - "Before I formed you in your mother's womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16 - The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob's descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the LORD who rules over all."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:2 - "Go down at once to the potter's house. I will speak to you further there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:3 - So I went down to the potter's house and found him working at his wheel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - "I, the LORD, say: 'O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter's hand.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says, 'I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1 - The LORD told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - Tell them the LORD who rules over all says, 'I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter's vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2 - "I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19 - The LORD, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them. For he is the one who created everything, including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own. He is known as the LORD who rules over all.

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