# יָצַר (yatsar)

Israeli respelling: ya-tsar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3335. 56 Old Testament occurrences.

to mould into a form; especially as apotter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)

King James renderings: [idiom] earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yatsar-h3335

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/7) — And 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 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/8) — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- [Genesis 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/19) — And 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 wo…
- [Exodus 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/32/4) — And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy g…
- [2 Samuel 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/28) — Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pul…
- [2 Kings 19:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/25) — Hast 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 shoul…
- [1 Chronicles 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/23) — These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
- [Psalms 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/2/9) — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- [Psalms 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/15) — He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
- [Psalms 74:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/17) — Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- [Psalms 94:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/9) — He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- [Psalms 94:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/20) — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- [Psalms 95:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/5) — The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
- [Psalms 104:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/26) — There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
- [Psalms 139:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/16) — Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, whe…
- [Isaiah 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/11) — Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respec…
- [Isaiah 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/11) — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understandin…
- [Isaiah 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/16) — Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me no…
- [Isaiah 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/14) — And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found…
- [Isaiah 37:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/26) — Hast 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 sho…
- [Isaiah 41:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/25) — I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princ…
- [Isaiah 43:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/1) — But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have calle…
- [Isaiah 43:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/7) — Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
- [Isaiah 43:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/10) — Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: befor…
- [Isaiah 43:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/21) — This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
- [Isaiah 44:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/2) — Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun,…
- [Isaiah 44:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/9) — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they…
- [Isaiah 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/10) — Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
- [Isaiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/12) — The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he i…
- [Isaiah 44:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/21) — Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten…
- [Isaiah 44:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/24) — Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the h…
- [Isaiah 45:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/7) — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- [Isaiah 45:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/9) — Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashione…
- [Isaiah 45:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/11) — Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hand…
- [Isaiah 45:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/18) — For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not…
- [Isaiah 46:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/11) — Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to…
- [Isaiah 49:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/5) — And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet sha…
- [Isaiah 54:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/17) — No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is…
- [Isaiah 64:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/8) — But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- [Jeremiah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/5) — Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophe…
- [Jeremiah 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/16) — The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is h…
- [Jeremiah 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/2) — Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
- [Jeremiah 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/3) — Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
- [Jeremiah 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/4) — And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter…
- [Jeremiah 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/6) — O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand…
- [Jeremiah 18:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/11) — Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil agai…
- [Jeremiah 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/1) — Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
- [Jeremiah 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/11) — And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, t…
- [Jeremiah 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/2) — Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
- [Jeremiah 51:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/19) — The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is h…
- [Lamentations 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/2) — The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
- [Amos 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/13) — For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness…
- [Amos 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/1) — Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, l…
- [Habakkuk 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/18) — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work…
- [Zechariah 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/13) — 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, an…
- [Zechariah 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/1) — The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,…