יֹ֫שֶׁר
yo.sher
1. straightness, uprightness
a. straightness, evenness (moral implications)
b. rightness, uprightness
c. what is right, what is due
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
Forms
By book
Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 14 verses
- Deuteronomy 9:5 וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙
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.
- 1 Kings 9:4 וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁר
And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
- 1 Chronicles 29:17 בְּיֹ֤שֶׁר
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.
- Job 6:25 יֹ֑שֶׁר
How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
- Job 33:3 יֹֽשֶׁר־
My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
- Job 33:23 יָשְׁרֽוֹ׃
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
- Psalms 25:21 וָיֹ֥שֶׁר
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
- Psalms 119:7 בְּיֹ֣שֶׁר
I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.
- Proverbs 2:13 יֹ֑שֶׁר
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
- Proverbs 4:11 יֹֽשֶׁר׃
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- Proverbs 11:24 מִ֝יֹּ֗שֶׁר
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- Proverbs 14:2 בְּ֭יָשְׁרוֹ
He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
- Proverbs 17:26 יֹֽשֶׁר׃
It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10 יֹ֖שֶׁר
The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
