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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3476/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

י֫שֶׁר: n.m. straightness, uprightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3476/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3476.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3476/): 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).