Strong's #3335: yatsar (pronounced yaw-tsar')
probably identical with 3334 (through the squeezing into shape); ((compare 3331)); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution):--X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâtsar
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 (figuratively 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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: probably identical with H3334 (through the squeezing into shape), ([compare H3331])
Usage:
This word is used 62 times:
Jeremiah 19:1: "Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients"
Jeremiah 19:11: "as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot"
Jeremiah 33:2: "the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;"
Jeremiah 51:19: "like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD"
Lamentations 4:2: "pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!"
Amos 4:13: "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man"
Amos 7:1: "showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth;"
Habakkuk 2:18: "profiteth that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies,"
Habakkuk 2:18: "and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make"
Zechariah 11:13: "me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at"
Zechariah 11:13: "the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD."
Zechariah 12:1: "the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within"
