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Lexicon :: Strong's H3335 - yāṣar

Aa
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 BoxGen 2:7 - And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:28 - Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9 - They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:15 - He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:17 - By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:9 - Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5 - The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:26 - There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:16 - Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11 - And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 - When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:7 - Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:10 - You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:21 - Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:2 - The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:10 - Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:21 - Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:24 - The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:11 - The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11 - Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16 - The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:2 - Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:3 - Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1 - This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2 - These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:19 - The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

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