יֹשֶׁר

«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.

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

Glosses

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

Meaning (OSHB)

straightness tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. straightness, uprightness tree →

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.

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 25:21

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.

Proverbs 2:13

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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