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יֵצֶר
yêtser · Hebrew · Strong's H3336 · 10 occurrences
The KJV renders 28 different Hebrew and Greek words as “work”
What it means
a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose)
from H3335 (יָצַר);
How the KJV renders it
frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“work”
also renders ergázomai (G2038), poiéō (G4160), ergasía (G2039), érgon (G2041), prâxis (G4234), katergázomai (G2716), energéō (G1754), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), dâbâr (H1697), châshab (H2803), yᵉgîyaʻ (H3018), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), maʻbâd (H4566), maʻbâd (H4567), maʻălâl (H4611), miphʻâl (H4659), miqshâh (H4749), ʻăbad (H5648), ʻăbôdâh (H5656), ʻăbîydâh (H5673), ʻălîylâh (H5949), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), pâʻal (H6466), pôʻal (H6467), pᵉʻullâh (H6468)
“mind”
“imagination”
Where it appears
10 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 9 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 28:9 · HNcmsc
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 29:18 · HR/Ncmsc
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
Deuteronomy 31:21 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
Genesis 6:5 · HNcmsc
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 8:21 · HNcmsc
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Habakkuk 2:18 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Isaiah 26:3 HNcmsaIsaiah 29:16 HC/NcmsaPsalm 103:14 HNcmsc/Sp1cp
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.