יֹ֫שֶׁר
yo.sher
“uprightness”
Definition
the right
from H3474 (יָשַׁר);
- straightness, uprightness 1a) straightness, evenness (moral implications) 1b) rightness, uprightness 1c) what is right, what is due
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
יֹ֫שֶׁר appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
My words are from an upright heart,and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
How painful are honest words!But what does your argument prove?
He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD,but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.