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Strong's G4111 πλάσσω (plasso)

Plasso means “form” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4111 — mahalalel (“Mahalaleel”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4111
Language Greek
Linked Usages 51
Books 16

Strong's G4111 Quick Answer

Strong's G4111 πλάσσω (plasso) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. plasso (plas'-so) v. 1. to mould, i.e. shape or fabricate [a primary verb] It has 51 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include formed, made, lord, thee, and god. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
plasso (plas'-so) v. 1. to mould, i.e. shape or fabricate [a primary verb]
Usage
51 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
formed, made, lord, thee, and god

Meaning and Definition

plasso (plas'-so) v. 1. to mould, i.e. shape or fabricate [a primary verb] KJV: form

Original Word
πλάσσω
Transliteration
plasso
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4111. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

formed made lord thee god earth man israel hast things upon out

How Strong's G4111 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4111 (πλάσσω) appears 52 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4111 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4111 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Romans 9:20 KJV

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Strong's G4111 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 2:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

Strong's G4111 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 7:23 Septuagint / Brenton

but doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.

4 Maccabees 13:20 Septuagint / Brenton

In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,

Wisdom of Solomon 15:7 Septuagint / Brenton

For the potter, tempering soft earth, Fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service: Yea, of the same clay he maketh Both the vessels that serve for clean uses, And likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: But what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

Usage Excerpts

First 51 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4111.

Genesis 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.
Exodus 32:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he received them at their hands, and formed them with a graving tool; and he made them a molten calf, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
3 Kingdoms 12:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
4 Kingdoms 19:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.
Job 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy hands have formed me and made me; Afterward thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.
Job 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember that thou hast made me as clay, And thou dost turn me again to earth.
Job 34:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All flesh would die together, And every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.
Job 38:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
Psalms 32:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who fashioned their hearts alone; Who understands all their works.
Psalms 73:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and spring.
Psalms 89:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the mountains existed, And before the earth and the world were formed, Even from age to age, thou art.
Psalms 93:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that planted the ear, does he not hear? Or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?
Psalms 93:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, Which frames mischief by an ordinance?
Psalms 94:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the sea is his, and he made it: And his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 103:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There go the ships; And this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it.
Psalms 118:73 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me: Instruct me, that I may learn thy commandments.
Psalms 138:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the last and the first: Thou hast fashioned me, and laid thy hand upon me.
Psalms 138:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, And all men shall be written in thy book; They shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.
Proverbs 24:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if thou shouldest say, I know not this man; Know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; And he that formed breath for all, he knows all things, Who renders to every man according to his works.
Isaiah 27:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, ye women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.
Isaiah 29:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?
Isaiah 43:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now thus saith the Lord God that made thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah 43:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
even all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:
Isaiah 44:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
Isaiah 44:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
Isaiah 44:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant; I have formed thee to be my servant: and do thou, Israel, not forget me.
Isaiah 44:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.
Isaiah 49:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Isaiah 53:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins.
Jeremiah 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 10:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 18:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
Jeremiah 19:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests;
Jeremiah 28:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Not such is Jacob’s portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
Jeremiah 40:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;
Habakkuk 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Art not thou from the beginning, O Lord God, my Holy One? and surely we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast established it for judgment, and he has formed me to chasten with his correction.
Habakkuk 2:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
Zechariah 12:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Romans 9:20 New Testament, KJV
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
1 Timothy 2:13 New Testament, KJV
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
2 Maccabees 7:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
but doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.
4 Maccabees 13:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,
Wisdom of Solomon 15:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the potter, tempering soft earth, Fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service: Yea, of the same clay he maketh Both the vessels that serve for clean uses, And likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: But what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And employing his labors lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, Even he which a little before was made of earth himself, And within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, When his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labor, Nor that his life is short: But striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, And endeavoreth to do like the workers in brass, And counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, And him that inspired into him an active soul, And breathed in a living spirit.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For man made them, And he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: But no man can make a god like unto himself.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4111, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4111 FAQ

What does plasso (πλάσσω) mean?

Plasso (Strong's G4111) is a Greek word most simply glossed "form". plasso (plas'-so) v. 1. to mould, i.e. shape or fabricate [a primary verb]

How many times is plasso (πλάσσω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 51 linked usages for Strong's G4111 across 16 books.

Where can I study plasso (πλάσσω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4111 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate plasso (πλάσσω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as formed, made, lord, thee, god, and earth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4111 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 42 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4111, with linked reader references where each row is available.