[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A8/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [י](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/yod/)‎ / יֹוצֵר‎

# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵ֫צֶר: n.m. form, framing, purpose [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_5e8/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d5_5e6_5b5_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).