King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H3336
Transliteration: yetser
Phonetic Spelling: (yay'-tser)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a form, framing, purpose
Meaning: a form, framing, purpose
Word Summary
yetser: a form, framing, purpose
Original Word: יֵצֶרTransliteration: yetser
Phonetic Spelling: (yay'-tser)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a form, framing, purpose
Meaning: a form, framing, purpose
Strong's Concordance
frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work From yatsar; a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. Purpose) -- frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
see HEBREW yatsar
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3336. yetser
I. יֵ֫צָר noun masculineIsaiah 26:3 form, framing, purpose; — ׳י Genesis 6:5 5t.; יִצְדוֺ Deuteronomy 31:21; Habakkuk 2:18; יִצְרֵנוּ Psalm 103:14; —
1 pottery, formed by the potter Isaiah 29:16.
2 form of a graven image Habakkuk 2:18.
3 form of man as made of the dust Psalm Hab 103:14.
4 of what is framed in the mind (compare יָצַר
1c, 2 b), imagination, device, purpose: לב(בׅ מחשׁב(ו)ת יצר Genesis 6:5 (J), 1 Chronicles 29:18; ׳י מחשׁבות 28:9; ׳י לב Genesis 8:21 (J); יֵצֶר alone Deuteronomy 31:21 (J); סָמוּךְ יֵצֶר Isaiah 26:3 a stedfast purpose (or frame of mind). (In Late Hebrew יֵצֶר is common in sense of impulse: הטוב יצר and הרע יצר of good and bad tendency in man.)