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# יְשָׁרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3483

**uprightness** — 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

uprightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3483/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְשָׁרָה: n.f. uprightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3483/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. uprightness;—בְּיִשְׁרַת לֵבָב 1 K 3:6 (for form see Bö§ 644 a Kö§ 90 (ii, 170)).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: uprightness (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.3.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אַתָּ֨ה עָשִׂ֜יתָ עִם־עַבְדְּךָ֙ דָוִ֣ד אָבִי֮ חֶ֣סֶד גָּדוֹל֒ כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ הָלַ֨ךְ לְפָנֶ֜יךָ בֶּאֱמֶ֧ת וּבִצְדָקָ֛ה וּבְיִשְׁרַ֥ת לֵבָ֖ב עִמָּ֑ךְ וַתִּשְׁמָר־ל֗וֹ אֶת־הַחֶ֤סֶד הַגָּדוֹל֙ הַזֶּ֔ה וַתִּתֶּן־ל֥וֹ בֵ֛ן יֹשֵׁ֥ב עַל־כִּסְא֖וֹ כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Solomon you you.have.done with servant your David father my covenant.loyalty great just as he.walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of.heart with you and you.have.kept to him (et) the.covenant loyalty (the) great (the) this and you.have.given to him a.son \[who\].sits on throne his as the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon said: 'Thou hast shown unto Thy servant David my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3483.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3483/): 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).