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# יְשֻׁרוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3484

**Jeshurun** — used 4 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

Jeshurun [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְשֻׁרוּן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (upright one) Dt 32:15; 33:5, 26 Is 44:2; poetic name of Israel, designating it under its ideal character, 𝔊 ὁ ἠγαπημένος Aq Sym Theod εὐθύς, 𝔙 rectissimus, dilectus; Thes Ew§ 167 a LagBN 33 regard it as dimin. from יָשׁוּר = good little people; but no evidence that -וּן has a dimin. force, and most recent scholars De Di Dr MV Ges§ 86 (2), 4 take as denom. = Rechtvolk; BacherZAW v, 1885, 161 ff. and Che rightly compare סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר (see יָשָׁר 3 e).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jeshurun (3); O Jeshurun (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.5/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י בִישֻׁר֖וּן מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם יַ֖חַד שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.was in Jeshurun king when gathered.themselves \[the\].chiefs of.\[the\].people together the.tribes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

[Deuteronomy 33:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.26/#tree)

אֵ֥ין כָּאֵ֖ל יְשֻׁר֑וּן רֹכֵ֤ב שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בְעֶזְרֶ֔ךָ וּבְגַאֲוָת֖וֹ שְׁחָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not like (the) God O.Jeshurun \[who\].rides heaven for help your and in majesty his clouds

*JPS 1917:* There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven as thy help, and in His excellency on the skies.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/): 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).