יָצַר

Biblical Hebrew

form — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

form tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵ֫צֶר: n.m. form, framing, purpose tree →

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.)

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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: potter (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 29:16 · tree →

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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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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