Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3476
יֹשֶׁר
yosheryo'-sher
uprightness
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yôsher
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3476is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3476
the right
The King James renders it: equity, meet, right, upright(-ness).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yosher is rendered "uprightness". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 9:5It 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.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
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.
Deuteronomy 9:5וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fourteen uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- uprightness5
- in uprightness of2
- and in uprightness1
- and in uprightness of1
- and uprightness1
- from uprightness1
- in uprightness his1
- uprightness his1
- uprightness of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יֹ֑שֶׁר2
- יֹֽשֶׁר׃2
- בְּיֹ֣שֶׁר1
- בְּיֹ֤שֶׁר1
- בְּ֭יָשְׁרוֹ1
- וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙1
- וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁר1
- וָיֹ֥שֶׁר1
- יֹ֖שֶׁר1
- יֹֽשֶׁר־1
- יָשְׁרֽוֹ׃1
- מִ֝יֹּ֗שֶׁר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙uveyosherconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and in uprightness of
1 Kings
one use
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,
- וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁרuveyosherconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in uprightness
1 Chronicles
one use
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.
- בְּיֹ֤שֶׁרbeyosherpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in uprightness of
Job
three uses
How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
- יֹ֑שֶׁרyoshernoun · masculine singulartagged: uprightness
My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
- יֹֽשֶׁר־yosher-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uprightness of
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
- יָשְׁרֽוֹ׃yasheronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: uprightness his
Psalms
two uses
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
- וָיֹ֥שֶׁרvayosherconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and uprightness
I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.
- בְּיֹ֣שֶׁרbeyosherpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in uprightness of
Proverbs
five uses
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
- יֹ֑שֶׁרyoshernoun · masculine singulartagged: uprightness
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- יֹֽשֶׁר׃yoshernoun · masculine singulartagged: uprightness
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- מִ֝יֹּ֗שֶׁרmiyosherpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from uprightness
He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
- בְּ֭יָשְׁרוֹbeyasheropreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in uprightness his
It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
- יֹֽשֶׁר׃yoshernoun · masculine singulartagged: uprightness
Ecclesiastes
one use
The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
- יֹ֖שֶׁרyoshernoun · masculine singulartagged: uprightness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.