Plain
מִישׁוֹרStrong’s H4334mishor (mi-shor)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishor is the Hebrew word usually translated “plain”, “level ground” and “on the level ground”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Meaning
- Level place, uprightnesslevel country, table-land, plain · level place · uprightness
How it's translated
- the plain 8
- level ground 5
- in the plain 2
- on the level ground 2
- uprightness 2
- and in the plain 1
- on level ground 1
- with uprightness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 5
- Psalms 5
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 3:10All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 4:43Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
- Joshua 13:9From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
- Joshua 13:16And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
- Joshua 13:17Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
- Joshua 13:21And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
Hebrew dictionary
מִישׁוֹר mishor · plain
1) level place, uprightness 1a) level country, table-land, plain 1b) level place 1c) uprightness
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.