Strong's Hebrew: 3336. יֵ֫צֶר (yetser) -- a form, framing, purpose

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yetser: a form, framing, purpose

Original Word: יֵ֫צֶר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: yetser
Phonetic Spelling: (yay'-tser)
Short Definition: intent

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from yatsar
Definition
a form, framing, purpose
NASB Translation
formed (1), frame (1), handiwork (1), intent (4), intentions* (1), mind (1), what (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. יֵ֫צָר noun masculine^{Isaiah 26:3} form, framing, purpose; — ׳י Genesis 6:5 5t.; יִצְדוֺ Deuteronomy 31:21; Habakkuk 2:18; יִצְרֵנוּ Psalm 103:14; —

1 pottery, formed by the potter Isaiah 29:16.

2 form of a graven image Habakkuk 2:18.

3 form of man as made of the dust Psalm Hab 103:14.

4 of what is framed in the mind (compare יָצַר

1c, 2 b), imagination, device, purpose: יצר מחשׁב(ו)ת לב(בׅ Genesis 6:5 (J), 1 Chronicles 29:18; מחשׁבות ׳י 1 Chronicles 28:9; לב ׳י Genesis 8:21 (J); יֵצֶר alone Deuteronomy 31:21 (J); יֵצֶר סָמוּךְ Isaiah 26:3 a stedfast purpose (or frame of mind). (In Late Hebrew יֵצֶר is common in sense of impulse: יצר הטוב and יצר הרע of good and bad tendency in man.)

Strong's

frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work

From yatsar; a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. Purpose) -- frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.

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