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# uprightly

adverb

«uprightly» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

It describes a person who lives and speaks honestly. The prophets praise such people, and say that the wicked hate those who speak honestly.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads walking uprightly as living by God's commands in daily life, and speaking truth in one's heart as honesty that is more than just words.

### Meaning

In an honest and right way, with fairness and truth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/uprightly/#m1)

### Examples

- Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? (Prophets MIC.2.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/uprightly/#x1)
- He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh truth in his heart; (Writings PSA.15.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/uprightly/#x2)
- They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Prophets AMO.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/uprightly/#x3)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «uprightly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/uprightly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«uprightly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/uprightly.html) on Mova free.