יֹשֶׁר
yōšer
straightness
Strong's H3476NounHebrewTWOT 930b

יֹשֶׁר (yōšer) is a Hebrew noun meaning straightness. It appears 14 times in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3476).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 930b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 930b)straightness, uprightness; evenness; rightness; what is due, right; equity, meet, upright
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

יֹ֫שֶׁר noun, masculine: straightness, uprightness

Strong's H3476 יֹשֶׁר: the right
KJV:equity, meet, right, upright(-ness).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 930: יָשַׁר yāšar — be smooth, straight, right; go straight, be pleasing, agreeable, straightforward, upright; make smooth, lead straight along, direct, esteem right, approve; gold made level, laid smoothly out, upon the graven work; even, be, make…

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Deuteronomy 9:51 Kings 9:41 Chronicles 29:17

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