To form
יָצַרStrong’s H3335yatsar (ya-tsar)
Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “potter”, “formed” and “formed you”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.”
Meaning
- To form, fashion, frame(Qal) to form, fashion · (Niphal) to be formed, be created · (Pual) to be predetermined, be pre-ordained · (Hophal) to be formed
How it's translated
- the potter 9
- a potter 4
- formed 4
- and formed you 3
- and he formed 2
- and i planned it 2
- and formed it 2
- i formed you 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 24
- Jeremiah 11
- Psalms 8
- Genesis 3
- Amos 2
- Zechariah 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:1In contextThe burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
- Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- 2 Samuel 17:28Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
- 2 Kings 19:25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
All 55 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָצַר yatsar · to form
: formed 1) to form, fashion, frame 1a) (Qal) to form, fashion 1a1) of human activity 1a2) of divine activity 1a2a) of creation 1a2a1) of original creation 1a2a2) of individuals at conception 1a2a3) of Israel as a people 1a2b) to frame, pre-ordain, plan (fig. of divine) purpose of a situation) 1b) (Niphal) to be formed, be created 1c) (Pual) to be predetermined, be pre-ordained 1d) (Hophal) to be formed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “form” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORM, noun
[Latin forma.]
- The shape or external appearance of a body; the figure, as defined by lines and angles; that manner of being peculiar to each body, which exhibits it to the eye as distinct from every other body.“The form of his visage was changed” Daniel 3:19“After that he appeared in another form to two of them, as they walked” Mark 16:12
- Manner of arranging particulars; disposition of particular things; as a form of words or expressions.
- Model; draught; pattern.“Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me” 2 Timothy 1:13
- Beauty; elegance; splendor; dignity.“He hath no form nor comeliness” Isaiah 53:2
All definitions and other forms of “form”
- Regularity; method; order.
- External appearance without the essential qualities; empty show.
- Stated method; established practice; ritual or prescribed mode; as the forms of public worship; the forms of judicial proceeding; forms of civility.
- Ceremony; as, it is a mere matter of form
- Determinate shape.“The earth was without form and void” Genesis 1:2
- Likeness; image.“Who, being in the form of God -” Philippians 2:6
- Manner; system; as a form of government; a monarchical or republican form
- Manner of arrangement; disposition of component parts; as the interior form or structure of the flesh or bones, or of other bodies.
- A long seat; a bench without a back.
- In schools, a class; a rank of students.
- The seat or bed of a hare.
- A mold; something to give shape, or on which things are fashioned.
- In printing, an assemblage of types, composed and arranged in order, disposed into pages or columns, and inclosed and locked in a chase, to receive an impression.
- Essential form is that mode of existence which constitutes a thing what it is, and without which it could not exist.
FORM, verb transitive
[Latin formo.]
- To make or cause to exist.
- To shape; to mold or fashion into a particular shape or state; as, to form an image of stone or clay.
- To plan; to scheme; to modify.
- To arrange; to combine in a particular manner; as, to form a line or square of troops.
- To adjust; to settle.
- To contrive; to invent; as, to form a design or scheme.
- To make; up; to frame; to settle by deductions of reason; as, to form an opinion or judgment; to form an estimate.
- To mold; to model by instruction and discipline; as, to form the mind to virtuous habits by education.
- To combine; to unite individuals into a collective body; as, to form a society for missions.
- To make; to establish.
- To compile; as, to form a body of laws or customs; to form a digest.
- To constitute; to make.
- In grammar, to make by derivation, or by affixes or prefixes.
- To enact; to make; to ordain; as, to form a law or an edict.
FORM, verb intransitive
To take a form
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.