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Hebrew does not have a rich vocabulary, with many shades of synonym. Yet we have rather precise terms for "create," "make," "form" and "fashion."
To be clearer, consider Exodus 20:11 - "For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day...."
This is different from Genesis 1:1; it does not say that
Jehovah created heaven and earth in six days, nor does scripture
say this anywhere. The creation was in the beginning; in the
six days the earth was made.
Create - bara - refers to the efficient cause
Make - asah - points to the formal cause
Form - yatsar - brings in the material.
Hebrew is exquisitely precise on these particulars; the obvious reason is that it was God's pleasure to reveal His mind about these things in the Hebrew language; strikingly, Greek, though otherwise expressive, fails to express these shades of meaning.
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