יֹוצֵר

Biblical Hebrew

form — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses 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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 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: the potter (6); of a potter (4); potter (4).

In the verses

Psalms 2:9 · tree →

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.'

Jeremiah 18:3 · tree →

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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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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