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# אֶשֶׁר

Biblical Hebrew

**happiness** — used 44 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

happiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b6_5c1_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: how blessed! (38); how (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 84:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.13/#tree)

יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֑וֹת אַֽשְׁרֵ֥י אָ֝דָ֗ם בֹּטֵ֥חַ בָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* O.Yahweh of.hosts how.blessed! \[is\].anyone \[who\].trusts in you

*JPS 1917:* O LORD of hosts, happy is the man that trusteth in Thee.

[Psalms 32:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.1/#tree)

לְדָוִ֗ד מַ֫שְׂכִּ֥ילאַשְׁרֵ֥י נְֽשׂוּי־פֶּ֗שַׁע כְּס֣וּי חֲטָאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* of David a.poem how.blessed! \[is.one.who.is\].forgiven of.transgression \[is.one.who.is\].covered of.sin

*JPS 1917:* A Psalm of David. Happy is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is pardoned.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b6_5c1_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b6_5c1_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).