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title: יֹשֶׁר — straightness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֹשֶׁר (3476), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: straightness. BDB 1906: n.m. straightness, uprightness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֹשֶׁר

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«יֹשֶׁר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **straightness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 3476 · **BDB:** י֫שֶׁר

### Glosses

uprightness (8); of.uprightness (3); the.uprightness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יֹשֶׁר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3476/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 25:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.21/)

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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.

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[Proverbs 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.13/)

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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;

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