יֹשֶׁר yosher

Hebrew word for “uprightness” · Strong’s H3476 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

1) straightness, uprightness; 1a) straightness, evenness (moral implications); 1b) rightness, uprightness; 1c) what is right, what is due

How it is translated

Glosses given for yosher in context, with how often each is used:

• uprightness 14

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 33 (2), Deuteronomy 9 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 1 Chronicles 29 (1), Job 6 (1), Psalms 25 (1), Psalms 119 (1), Proverbs 2 (1), Proverbs 4 (1), Proverbs 11 (1)

Forms

• ישׁר 6
• ובישׁר 2
• בישׁר 2
• ישׁרו 1
• וישׁר 1
• מישׁר 1
• בישׁרו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yosher more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• לֵבָב levav “heart” 4
• תֹּם tom “integrity” 2
• אֵמֶר emer “word” 2
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 3
• יֵשׁ yesh “there” 2
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 3
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 3
• מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 2
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 2
• אִם im “if” 2
• אָב av “father” 2

Key verses

The verses using yosher that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 9:5 — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God…
• 1 Kings 9:4 — And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and…
• 1 Chronicles 29:17 — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all…
• Job 6:25 — How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
• Job 33:3 — My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
• Job 33:23 — If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
• Psalms 25:21 — Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
• Psalms 119:7 — I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
• Proverbs 2:13 — Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
• Proverbs 11:24 — There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
• Proverbs 14:2 — He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
• Ecclesiastes 12:10 — The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.