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title: יְשֻׁרוּן — Jeshurun · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְשֻׁרוּן (3484), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Jeshurun. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְשֻׁרוּן

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«יְשֻׁרוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jeshurun** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 3484 · **BDB:** יְשֻׁרוּן

### Glosses

Jeshurun (3); O.Jeshurun (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jeshurun [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (upright one) Dt 32:15; 33:5, 26 Is 44:2; poetic name of Israel, designating it under its ideal character, 𝔊 ὁ ἠγαπημένος Aq Sym Theod εὐθύς, 𝔙 rectissimus, dilectus; Thes Ew§ 167 a LagBN 33 regard it as dimin. from יָשׁוּר = good little people; but no evidence that -וּן has a dimin. force, and most recent scholars De Di Dr MV Ges§ 86 (2), 4 take as denom. = Rechtvolk; BacherZAW v, 1885, 161 ff. and Che rightly compare סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר (see יָשָׁר 3 e).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְשֻׁרוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3484/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 33:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.5/)

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וַיְהִ֥י בִישֻׁר֖וּן מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּהִתְאַסֵּף֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם יַ֖חַד שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.was in Jeshurun king when gathered.themselves \[the\].chiefs of.\[the\].people together the.tribes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

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[Deuteronomy 33:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.26/)

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אֵ֥ין כָּאֵ֖ל יְשֻׁר֑וּן רֹכֵ֤ב שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בְעֶזְרֶ֔ךָ וּבְגַאֲוָת֖וֹ שְׁחָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not like (the) God O.Jeshurun \[who\].rides heaven for help your and in majesty his clouds

*JPS 1917:* There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven as thy help, and in His excellency on the skies.

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