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# מֵישָׁרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4339

**evenness** — used 19 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

evenness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4339/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵישָׁר: n.m. evenness, uprightness, equity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4339/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. evenness, uprightness, equity;—only pl.: מֵשָׁרִים Pr 1:3; elsewhere מֵישָׁרִים Is 26:7 + 17 times;— evenness, level Is 26:7, of path of righteous (in the future), fig. for free from difficulties; smoothness, of the flow of wine, בְּמ׳ Pr 23:31; למ׳ Ct 7:10; in ethical sense, uprightness, equity, as taught in the school of wisdom Pr 8:6, ‖ צֶדֶק 1:3; 2:9; of government (ב)מ׳ ψ 9:9; 58:2; 75:3; 96:10; 98:9; 99:4; of speech Is 33:15 Pr 23:16; of Yahweh’s promises Is 45:19; רצה מ׳ 1 Ch 29:17 have pleasure in equity; עשׂה מ׳ Dn 11:6 make an equitable arrangement. adv. rightly, with חזה ψ 17:2; אהב Ct 1:4.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: uprightness(es) (15); smoothness(es) (2); \[is\] level paths (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 75:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.3/#tree)

כִּ֭י אֶקַּ֣ח מוֹעֵ֑ד אֲ֝נִ֗י מֵישָׁרִ֥ים אֶשְׁפֹּֽט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I.will.take an.appointed.time I uprightness(es) I.will.judge

*JPS 1917:* 'When I take the appointed time, I Myself will judge with equity.

[Proverbs 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.3/#tree)

לָ֭קַחַת מוּסַ֣ר הַשְׂכֵּ֑ל צֶ֥דֶק וּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט וּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* to receive correction of.insight righteousness and justice and uprightness(es)

*JPS 1917:* To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4339.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4339/): 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).