Uprightness
יֹ֫שֶׁרStrong’s H3476yosher (yo-sher)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yosher is the Hebrew word usually translated “uprightness”, “uprightness of” and “uprightness his”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Not 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.”
Meaning
- Straightness, uprightnessstraightness, evenness (moral implications) · rightness, uprightness · what is right, what is due
How it's translated
- uprightness 5
- in uprightness of 2
- and in uprightness of 1
- and in uprightness 1
- uprightness of 1
- uprightness his 1
- and uprightness 1
- from uprightness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 5
- Job 3
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
יֹ֫שֶׁר yosher · uprightness
1) straightness, uprightness 1a) straightness, evenness (moral implications) 1b) rightness, uprightness 1c) what is right, what is due
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “uprightness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UPRIGHTNESS, noun
- Perpendicular erection.
- Honesty; integrity in principle or practice; conformity to rectitude and justice in social dealings.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.