Form
Form [1]
fôrm ( יצר , yācar , תּאר , tō'ar ; μορφή , morphḗ ):
(1) To form is "to fashion," "create," "produce." In the Old Testament it is for the most part the translation of yācar , "to form," "to fashion" ( Genesis 2:7 , etc., "Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground," etc.); also of ḥūl and ḥı̄l , "to be twisted" "turned round" "to bring forth (in pain)" (compare Isaiah 13:8; Micah 4:10; Deuteronomy 32:18 the King James Version, "God that formed thee"; Job 26:13 the King James Version; Psalm 90:2 , "or ever thou hadst formed the earth" etc.; Proverbs 26:10 the King James Version). In the New Testament we have morphóō , "to form" ( Galatians 4:19 , "until Christ be formed in you"); plássō , "to form," "to mold" ( Romans 9:20 , "him that formed it"; 1 Timothy 2:13 , "Adam was first formed"; 2 Macc 7:23, "the Creator ... who formed the generation of man," the Revised Version (British and American) "fashioned"; 7:22, "that formed the members ( diarrhuthmı́zō )," the Revised Version (British and American) "brought into order").
(2) Form (noun) is used for ( a ) appearance, mar'eh , "sight," "appearance" ( Job 4:16 , "I could not discern the form thereof" the Revised Version (British and American) "appearance" with "form" for "image" ( temūnāh ) in next sentence); celem , Aramaic "image" ( Daniel 3:19 , "The form of his visage was changed"); rēw , "form," "likeness" ( Daniel 2:31; Daniel 3:25 , the Revised Version (British and American) "aspect"); tō'ar , "visage," "form" ( 1 Samuel 28:14 , "What form is he of?"); ( b ) The fixed or characteristic form of anything, tabhnı̄th , "model," "form" ( Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 10:8 , "the form of a hand"; Ezekiel 8:10 , "every form of creeping things"); morphē , characteristic form as distinguished from schḗma , changing fashion ( Philippians 2:6 , "in the form of God"; Philippians 2:7 , "the form of a servant"; less distinctly Mark 16:12 , "in another form"); ( c ) shape, model, pattern, mold, cūrāh , "shape," from cūr , "to cut or carve" ( Ezekiel 43:11 , ter , "the form of the house," etc.); mishpāt , "rule" ( 2 Chronicles 4:7 the King James Version); túpos , "type," "impress" ( Romans 6:17 , the Revised Version, margin "pattern"); hupotúpōsis , "outline," pattern ( 2 Timothy 1:13 , the Revised Version (British and American) "pattern"); mórphōsis , "form," "appearance" ( Romans 2:20 , "the form of knowledge"); ( d ) orderly arrangement, giving shape or form ( Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23 , the earth was "without form," tōhū , the Revised Version (British and American) "waste"; The Wisdom of Solomon 11:17, ámorphos ); "form of speech" ( 2 Samuel 14:20 , aspect, pānı̄m , "face," the Revised Version (British and American) "to change the face of the matter"); as giving comeliness or beauty, tō'ar ( Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2 , "He hath no form nor comeliness"; compare Genesis 29:17; Genesis 39:6 , etc.; The Wisdom of Solomon 15:5, "desiring the form ( eı́dos ) of a dead image," the Revised Version (British and American) "the breathless form"); ( e ) Show, without substance, morphōsis , "form" ( 2 Timothy 3:5 , "holding a form of godliness").
ARV has "didst form" for "hast possessed" ( Psalm 139:13 , so the English Revised Version, margin; both have "formed" for "made" ( Psalm 104:26 ), the American Standard Revised Version for "framed" twice ( Isaiah 29:16 ); both for "formed thee," "gave birth" ( Deuteronomy 32:18 ); "pierced" ( Job 26:13 ); "woundeth" ( Proverbs 26:10 ); "fastened" ( Isaiah 44:10 ); for "are formed from" ( Job 26:5 ), "tremble"; for "their form" ( 2 Chronicles 4:7 ), "the ordinance concerning them"; "form" for "similitude" ( Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 4:12 , Deuteronomy 4:15 ); for "size" ( 1 Kings 6:25; 1 Kings 7:37 ); for "shape" ( Luke 3:22; John 5:37 ); "in the form" for "similitude" ( Deuteronomy 4:16 ); for "or the like" ( Deuteronomy 4:23 , Deuteronomy 4:15 ); the American Standard Revised Version "(beholding) thy form" for "thy likeness" ( Psalm 17:15 , the English Revised Version, margin); "every form" for "all appearance" ( 1 Thessalonians 5:22; so the English Revised Version, margin "appearance").
