יֵצֶר yêtser — a form
Translated in the KJV as frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
from H3335; a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose).
yêtser in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
יֹֽצְר֔וֹ Hab 2:18 Participle (active), masculine singular
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 trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›