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# אֶשֶׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H835

**happiness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

happiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/835/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 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: blessed \[is\] he (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 29:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.18/#tree)

בְּאֵ֣ין חָ֭זוֹן יִפָּ֣רַֽע עָ֑ם וְשֹׁמֵ֖ר תּוֹרָ֣ה אַשְׁרֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* when there.\[is\].not vision it.is.let.loose a.people and \[one.who\].keeps \[the\].law blessed.\[is\].he how

*JPS 1917:* Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/835.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/835/): 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).