yosher · uprightness

What it means

yosher (יֹשֶׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “uprightness”.

What is straight and right.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A way of acting clean and without deceit, pleasing to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• uprightness ×13
• more than is right ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×1

• Deuteronomy 9:5

  Not because of your righteousness or because of the uprightness of your heart are you going in to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH your Elohim is dispossessing them from before you, and in order to establish the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• 1 Kings 9:4

  And you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my rules,

• 1 Chronicles 29:17

  I know, my Elohim, that you test the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have offered willingly all these things; and now I have seen with joy your people who are present here offering willingly to you.

• Job 6:25

  How hard are sayings of uprightness, but what does reproof from you reprove?

• Job 33:3

  My sayings are the uprightness of my heart, and the knowledge of my lips they speak with purity.

• Job 33:23

  If there is beside him a messenger, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness,

• Psalms 25:21

  May integrity and uprightness guard me, for I have waited for you.

• Psalms 119:7

  I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart when I learn your righteous rules.

• Proverbs 2:13

  from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

• Proverbs 4:11

  In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in tracks of uprightness.

• Proverbs 11:24

  There is one who scatters and gains even more, and one who withholds more than is right comes only to need.

• Proverbs 14:2

  Whoever walks in his uprightness fears YHWH, but one devious in his ways despises him.

• Proverbs 17:26

  Also, to fine the righteous is not good, or to strike nobles for their uprightness.

• Ecclesiastes 12:10

  Qohelet sought to find words of delight, and what was written with uprightness, words of truth.