E-TZ-R – ‘elementary, primary figuration’

This is one of the most difficult words in the Hebraic tongue. Its primitive root is אר, the elementary principle whose analysis I have given in v.3, ch. 1. This root, ruled by the determinative sign צ, and animated by the convertible sign ו, offers in the verb צור, the idea of figuring, forming, coordinating, fixing and binding the constitutive elements of a thing…

In the present case, Moses has used the simple root צר, which expresses coordination, elementary figuration, by giving it for initial adjunction, the sign of manifestation and duration י, thus forming the compound radical verb יצר, he substantiated, formed, fastened; and fashioned for eternity. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 74)