יָצַר

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:7

• וַיִּיצֶר֩vaiyitzerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he formed

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

Genesis 2:8

• יָצָֽר׃yatzarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had formed

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 2:19

• וַיִּצֶר֩vaiyitzerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he formed

They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

2 Samuel 17:28

• יוֹצֵ֔רyotzernoun · masculine singulartagged: a potter

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

2 Kings 19:25

• וִֽיצַרְתִּ֑יהָvitzartihaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3fstagged: and I planned it

These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.

1 Chronicles 4:23

• הַיּ֣וֹצְרִ֔יםhaiyotzrimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the potters

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

Psalms 2:9

• יוֹצֵ֣רyotzernoun · masculine singulartagged: a potter

He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.

Psalms 33:15

• הַיֹּצֵ֣רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the forms

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

Psalms 74:17

• יְצַרְתָּם׃yetzartamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you formed them

He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

Psalms 94:9

• יֹ֥צֵֽרyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: former of

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?

Psalms 94:20

• יֹצֵ֖רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fashions

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

Psalms 95:5

• יָצָֽרוּ׃yatzaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they formed

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Psalms 104:26

• יָצַ֥רְתָּyatzartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you formed

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Psalms 139:16

• יֻצָּ֑רוּyutzaruverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were ordained

You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

Isaiah 22:11

• וְיֹצְרָ֥הּveyotzerahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and planned it

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah 27:11

• וְיֹצְר֖וֹveyotzeroconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and formed it

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

Isaiah 29:16

• הַיֹּצֵ֖רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter
• לְיוֹצְר֖וֹleyotzropreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to potter its

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Isaiah 30:14

• יוֹצְרִ֛יםyotzrimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: potters

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 37:26

• וִיצַרְתִּ֑יהָvitzartihaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3fstagged: and I planned it

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Isaiah 41:25

• יוֹצֵ֖רyotzernoun · masculine singulartagged: a potter

Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Isaiah 43:1

• וְיֹצֶרְךָ֖veyotzerkhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and formed you

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Isaiah 43:7

• יְצַרְתִּ֖יוyetzartivverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I formed him

“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.

Isaiah 43:10

• נ֣וֹצַרnotzarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was formed

The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

Isaiah 43:21

• יָצַ֣רְתִּיyatzartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I formed

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:2

• וְיֹצֶרְךָ֥veyotzerkhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and formed you

All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

Isaiah 44:9

• יֹֽצְרֵי־yotzerei-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: form

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Isaiah 44:10

• יָצַ֥רyatzarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he formed

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

Isaiah 44:12

• יִצְּרֵ֑הוּyitzerehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he forms it

Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

Isaiah 44:21

• יְצַרְתִּ֤יךָyetzartikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I formed you

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Isaiah 44:24

• וְיֹצֶרְךָ֖veyotzerkhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and formed you

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7

• יוֹצֵ֥רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: forms

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 45:9

• יֹ֣צְר֔וֹyotzeroverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: formed him
• לְיֹֽצְרוֹ֙leyotzeropreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to forms it

Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

Isaiah 45:11

• וְיֹצְר֑וֹveyotzeroconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and formed it

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:18

• יֹצֵ֨רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: formed
• יְצָרָ֑הּyetzarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he formed it

I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

Isaiah 46:11

• יָצַ֖רְתִּיyatzartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have planned

And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—

Isaiah 49:5

• יֹצְרִ֤יyotzeriverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: formed me

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 54:17

• יוּצַ֤רyutzarverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be formed

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Isaiah 64:8

• יֹצְרֵ֔נוּyotzerenuverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: formed us

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 1:5

• אֶצָּרְךָ֤ʾetzorkhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I formed you

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 10:16

• יוֹצֵ֤רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: [is one who] formed

“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

Jeremiah 18:2

• הַיּוֹצֵ֑רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

Jeremiah 18:3

• הַיּוֹצֵ֑רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Jeremiah 18:4

• הַיּוֹצֵ֑רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter
• הַיּוֹצֵ֖רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:6

• הֲכַיּוֹצֵ֨רhakhaiyotzerquestion particle + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: ¿ like the potter
• הַיּוֹצֵ֔רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

Jeremiah 18:11

• יוֹצֵ֤רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to fashion

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Jeremiah 19:1

• יוֹצֵ֣רyotzernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a potter of

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

Jeremiah 19:11

• הַיּוֹצֵ֔רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

Jeremiah 33:2

• יוֹצֵ֥רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: formed

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 51:19

• יוֹצֵ֤רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: [is one who] formed

How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

Lamentations 4:2

• יוֹצֵֽר׃ סyotzernoun · masculine singulartagged: a potter

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

Amos 4:13

• יוֹצֵ֨רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: formed

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

Amos 7:1

• יוֹצֵ֣רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: forming

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Habakkuk 2:18

• יֹֽצְר֔וֹyotzeroverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: formed it
• יֹצֵ֤רyotzerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: formed

And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Zechariah 11:13

• הַיּוֹצֵ֔רhaiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter
• הַיּוֹצֵֽר׃haiyotzerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the potter

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Zechariah 12:1

• וְיֹצֵ֥רveyotzerconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and formed