יֹשֶׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3476

straightness — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

straightness tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

י֫שֶׁר: n.m. straightness, uprightness tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. ψ 25:21 straightness, uprightness;—יֹשֶׁר Pr 2:13 + 11 times; sf. יָשָׁרוֹ Jb 33:23 Pr 14:2;— straightness, evenness, of paths (with moral implication) Pr 2:13; 4:11. rightness, uprightness Pr 17:26; תֹּם וָיֹשֶׁר ψ 25:21; of words, spoken Jb 6:25, written Ec 12:10; of the moral walk בישׁר(ו) 1 K 9:4 Pr 14:2; יֹשֶׁר־לִבִּי Jb 33:3; ישׁר לבב Dt 9:5 ψ 119:7 1 Ch 29:17:—on ψ 111:8 v. יָשָׁר 4. what is due, right Jb 33:23 Pr 11:24.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (18 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: uprightness (8); of uprightness (3); the uprightness (2).

In the verses

Psalms 25:21 · tree →

תֹּם־וָיֹ֥שֶׁר יִצְּר֑וּנִי כִּ֝֗י קִוִּיתִֽיךָ׃

Word for word: integrity and uprightness may they.preserve.me (dm) I have.waited.for.you

JPS 1917: Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.

Proverbs 2:13 · tree →

הַ֭עֹ֣זְבִים אָרְח֣וֹת יֹ֑שֶׁר לָ֝לֶ֗כֶת בְּדַרְכֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

Word for word: [who] leave paths of.uprightness to walk in the.ways of.darkness

JPS 1917: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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