By Water & Blood

Lemma

πλάσσω

plassō

To form or mold, as clay is shaped.

Forms

  • πλάσσω plassō The verb, G4111. To form or mold.
  • πλάσαντι plasanti Aorist participle. Romans 9:20, him who formed it.
  • ἐπλάσθη eplasthē Aorist passive. 1 Timothy 2:13, Adam was formed.
  • πλάσμα plasma The noun, G4110. That which is formed. Romans 9:20.
  • יָצַר yatsar To form or fashion, as a potter shapes clay.

Passages

πλάσσω is the Greek verb to form or mold. Thayer gives it as form or mold, properly of something from clay or wax. The Greek Old Testament uses it for יָצַר. Genesis 2:7 in Greek is ἔπλασεν, God formed man from the dust.

The New Testament has the verb only twice. Romans 9:20 keeps the potter’s image: will the thing formed, πλάσμα, ask him who formed it, τῷ πλάσαντι. 1 Timothy 2:13 says Adam was formed first, ἐπλάσθη, then Eve—the same forming as Genesis 2:7.

In this Bible, “formed” and “thing formed” link here only in the verses where the Greek is πλάσσω or πλάσμα.

Strong’s

Strong’s dictionaries compiled by Open Scriptures, used under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

πλάσσω G4111

plássō

to mould, i.e. shape or fabricate

a primary verb;

KJV glosses: form

πλάσμα G4110

plásma

something moulded

from G4111 (πλάσσω);

KJV glosses: thing formed

Thayer’s

Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.

πλάσσω G4111

plássō

πλάσσω: 1 aorist participle πλάσας; 1 aorist passive ἐπλασθην; ((perhaps akin to πλατύς; Curtius, § 367 b)); from Hesiod down; the Sept. chiefly for יָצַר; to form, mould (properly, something from clay, wax, etc.): used of a potter, Rom 9:20; of God as Creator (Genesis 2:7f, 19 etc.), passive, 1Ti 2:13.

πλάσμα G4110

plásma

πλάσμα, πλάσματος, τό (πλάσσω), what has been moulded or formed, as from wax (Plato, Theact., p. 197 d. and p. 200 b.); the thing formed by a potter, earthen vessel (Vulg.figmentum): Rom 9:20 (with πηλοῦ added, Aristophanes av. 686).