H3335. yatsar

יָצַר‎ verb form, fashion (Late Hebrew in participle יוֺצֵר‎ potter, creator, and derivatives; Phoenician יצר‎ potter; יצר ᵑ7‎ Syriac = יֵצֶר‎ etc.; Arabic covenant, contract; Assyrian êƒêru, as Hebrew, Dl^{HWB 309}) —

Qal Perfect ׳י‎ Isaiah 44:10; יָצָ֑ר‎ Genesis 2:8; suffix יְצָרָהּ‎ Isaiah 45:18; 2masculine יָצַרְתָּ‎ Psalm 104:26 8t. Perfect; Imperfect3masculine וַיִּ֫יצֶר‎ Genesis 2:7; וַיִּ֫צֶר‎ 2:19; suffix יִצְּרֵהוּ‎ Isaiah 44:12; 1singular suffix אֶצֳּו֯רְךָ‎ Jeremiah 1:5; Participle יוֺצֵר‎ Isaiah 41:25 20t.; יֹצֵר‎ 45:18 6t.; suffix יֹצְרִי‎ 49:5 11t. suffix; plural יוֺצְרִים‎ 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; 41:25; Jeremiah 18:4 (twice in verse); 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); (ה)י ׳כְּלִי‎ potter's vessel 2 Samuel 17:28; Psalm 2:9; Jeremiah 19:11; הי ׳חֹמֶר‎ potter's clay Isaiah 29:16; י ׳נֵבֶל‎ 30:14; י ׳בַּקְבֻּק‎ Jeremiah 19:1 הי ׳בית‎ 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 ׳י עָמָל‎ 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 2:19 (J); Israel as a people Isaiah 27:11; 43:1, 21; 44:21; 45:9 (twice in verse); 45:11; 64:7, even from the womb 44:2, 24; the servant of Yahweh from the womb 49:5; of the formation of the individual man 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 95:5; the earth Isaiah 45:18 (twice in verse); the mountains Amos 4:13; הַכֹּל‎ Jeremiah 10:16 = 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 קֶדֶם מִימֵי‎ 37:26 = 2 Kings 19:25; אֶעֱשֶׂנָּה אַף יָצַרְתִּי‎ I have planned, I will also do it 2Ki 46:11; ׳י על רעה‎ Jeremiah 18:11; ׳י לַהֲכִינָהּ‎ devised it to establish it 33:2.

Niph`al Perfect אֵל לֹאנֿוֺצַר לְפָנַי‎ Isaiah 43:10 before me a god was not formed (created).

Pu`al Perfect יצָֻּ֑רוּ יָמִים‎ days (that) were pre-ordained (in the divine purpose) Psalm 139:16 (compare Qal, 2 b).

Hoph`al Imperfect יִצְלָ֑ח לֹא עָלַיִךְ יוּצַר כָּלכְּֿלִי‎ Isaiah 54:17 any weapon that is formed against thee will not prosper.