Plasso (G4111) is the potter's word โ the deliberate, artisan shaping of clay into form. It appears in Romans 9:20 in the stunning silencing of human objection to God's sovereignty: Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' Paul draws on Isaiah's potter imagery (Isaiah 29:16; 45:9) to assert God's sovereign rights over His creation.
The LXX uses plasso for Genesis 2:7 โ God forming Adam from the dust. The same word used for human artisan forming and the divine forming of humanity. 1 Timothy 2:13 uses it: 'For Adam was formed [eplasthe] first, then Eve.' The theological weight: we are not accidental. We were plasso โ deliberately, artistically, purposefully formed by One who knew what He was making.