Topic
Form
60 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 1:2ISBE
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Genesis 2:7ISBE
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 29:17ISBE
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Genesis 39:6ISBE
And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
- Numbers 12:8ISBE
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
- Deuteronomy 4:12ISBE
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:15ISBE
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
- Deuteronomy 4:16ISBE
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:23ISBE
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:18ISBE
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
- 1 Samuel 28:14ISBE
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
- 2 Samuel 14:20ISBE
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
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- 1 Kings 6:25 ISBE
- 1 Kings 7:37 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 15:13 Nave IN RELIGIOUS SERVICE
- 1 Chronicles 15:14 Nave IN RELIGIOUS SERVICE
- 2 Chronicles 4:7 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 Nave IN RELIGIOUS SERVICE
- 2 Chronicles 30:2–5 Nave IRREGULARITIES IN
- 2 Chronicles 30:17–20 Nave IRREGULARITIES IN
- Job 4:16 ISBE
- Job 26:5 ISBE
- Job 26:13 ISBE
- Psalms 17:15 ISBE
- Psalms 90:2 ISBE
- Psalms 104:26 ISBE
- Psalms 139:13 ISBE
- Proverbs 26:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 13:8 ISBE
- Isaiah 29:16 ISBE
- Isaiah 44:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 52:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 53:2 ISBE
- Jeremiah 4:23 ISBE
- Ezekiel 8:3 ISBE
- Ezekiel 8:10 ISBE
- Ezekiel 10:8 ISBE
- Ezekiel 43:11 ISBE
- Daniel 2:31 ISBE
- Daniel 3:19 ISBE
- Daniel 3:25 ISBE
- Micah 4:10 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 11:17 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 15:5 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 7:23 ISBE
- Matthew 12:3 Nave IRREGULARITIES IN
- Matthew 12:4 Nave IRREGULARITIES IN
- Mark 16:12 ISBE
- Luke 3:22 ISBE
- John 5:37 ISBE
- Romans 2:20 ISBE
- Romans 6:17 ISBE
- Romans 9:20 ISBE
- Galatians 4:19 ISBE
- Philippians 2:6 ISBE
- Philippians 2:7 ISBE
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 2:13 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:13 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 3:5 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 59 references
form (yatsar, to'ar; morphe):
(1) To form is "to fashion," "create," "produce." In the Old Testament it is for the most part the translation of yatsar, "to form," "to fashion" (Ge 2:7, etc., "Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground," etc.); also of chul and chil, "to be twisted" "turned round" "to bring forth (in pain)" (compare Isa 13:8; Mic 4:10; De 32:18 the King James Version, "God that formed thee"; Job 26:13 the King James Version; Ps 90:2, "or ever thou hadst formed the earth" etc.; Pr 26:10 the King James Version). In the New Testament we have morphoo, "to form" (Ga 4:19, "until Christ be formed in you"); plasso, "to form," "to mold" (Ro 9:20, "him that formed it"; 1Ti 2:13, "Adam was first formed"; /APC 2Macc 7:23, "the Creator .... who formed the generation of man," the Revised Version (British and American) "fashioned"; 7:22, "that formed the members (diarrhuthmizo)," 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" (temunah) in next sentence); tselem, Aramaic "image" (Da 3:19, "The form of his visage was changed"); rew, "form," "likeness" (Da 2:31; 3:25, the Revised Version (British and American) "aspect"); to'ar, "visage," "form" (1Sa 28:14, "What form is he of?");
(b) the fixed or characteristic form of anything, tabhnith, "model," "form" (Eze 8:3; 10:8, "the form of a hand"; Eze 8:10, "every form of creeping things"); morphe, characteristic form as distinguished from schema, changing fashion (Php 2:6, "in the form of God"; Php 2:7, "the form of a servant"; less distinctly Mr 16:12, "in another form");
(c) shape, model, pattern, mold, tsurah, "shape," from tsur, "to cut or carve" (Eze 43:11, ter, "the form of the house," etc.); mishpat, "rule" (2Ch 4:7 the King James Version); tupos, "type," "impress" (Ro 6:17, the Revised Version, margin "pattern"); hupotuposis, "outline," pattern (2Ti 1:13, the Revised Version (British and American) "pattern"); morphosis, "form," "appearance" (Ro 2:20, "the form of knowledge");
(d) orderly arrangement, giving shape or form (Ge 1:2; Jer 4:23, the earth was "without form," tohu, the Revised Version (British and American) "waste"; The Wisdom of Solomon /APC Wis 11:17, amorphos); "form of speech" (2Sa 14:20, aspect, panim, "face," the Revised Version (British and American) "to change the face of the matter"); as giving comeliness or beauty, to'ar (Isa 52:14; 53:2, "He hath no form nor comeliness"; compare Ge 29:17; 39:6, etc.; The Wisdom of Solomon /APC Wis 15:5, "desiring the form (eidos) of a dead image," the Revised Version (British and American) "the breathless form");
(e) Show, without substance, morphosis, "form" (2Ti 3:5, "holding a form of godliness").
ARV has "didst form" for "hast possessed" (Ps 139:13, so the English Revised Version, margin; both have "formed" for "made" (Ps 104:26), the American Standard Revised Version for "framed" twice (Isa 29:16); both for "formed thee," "gave birth" (De 32:18); "pierced" (Job 26:13); "woundeth" (Pr 26:10); "fastened" (Isa 44:10); for "are formed from" (Job 26:5), "tremble"; for "their form" (2Ch 4:7), "the ordinance concerning them"; "form" for "similitude" (Nu 12:8; De 4:12,15); for "size" (1Ki 6:25; 7:37); for "shape" (Lu 3:22; Joh 5:37); "in the form" for "similitude" (De 4:16); for "or the like" (De 4:23,15); the American Standard Revised Version "(beholding) thy form" for "thy likeness" (Ps 17:15, the English Revised Version, margin); "every form" for "all appearance" (1Th 5:22; so the English Revised Version, margin "appearance").
W. L. Walker
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 7 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → IN RELIGIOUS SERVICE 1Ch 15:13,14; 2Ch 29:34
- → IRREGULARITIES IN 2Ch 30:2-5,17-20; Mt 12:3,4
- See CHURCH AND STATE
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.