Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3476
יֹ֫שֶׁר
yo.sher · “uprightness”
Used 14 times across 7 books
Definition
1) straightness, uprightness
1a) straightness, evenness (moral implications)
1b) rightness, uprightness
1c) what is right, what is due
1a) straightness, evenness (moral implications)
1b) rightness, uprightness
1c) what is right, what is due
Where it appears
Deuteronomy1
1 Kings1
1 Chronicles1
Job3
Psalms2
Proverbs5
Ecclesiastes1
In the text
Deuteronomy 9:5Not 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 doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.1 Kings 9:4And 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 wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:1 Chronicles 29:17I 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 these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.Job 6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?Job 33:3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.Job 33:23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.Psalms 119:7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.Proverbs 2:13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Proverbs 4:11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
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