mishor · tableland, level place

What it means

mishor (מִישׁוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tableland, level place”.

Tableland, plain: high level ground; with the article, the plateau east of the Jordan. Also uprightness, what is 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. Ground without hills.
2. What is upright and just, above all when a king or God judges peoples or the poor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• plateau ×9
• plain ×7
• uprightness ×4
• level ground ×2
• level ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×5
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Deuteronomy 3:10

  all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 4:43

  Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

• Joshua 13:9

  from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon;

• Joshua 13:16

  And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau by Medeba;

• Joshua 13:17

  Heshbon and all its cities that are on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

• Joshua 13:21

  and all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck, him and the chiefs of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

• Joshua 20:8

  And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

• 1 Kings 20:23

  The servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Gods of mountains are their gods; that is why they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them on the plateau, and surely we will be stronger than they.

• 1 Kings 20:25

  And you, count for yourself troops like the troops that fell from you, horse for horse and chariot for chariot; and let us fight against them on the plateau, and surely we will be stronger than they.” He listened to their voice and did so.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground.

• Psalms 26:12

  My foot stands on level ground; in the assemblies I will bless YHWH.

• Psalms 27:11

  Teach me, YHWH, your way, and lead me on a level path because of those who lie in wait for me.

• Psalms 45:6

  Your throne, Elohim, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

• Psalms 67:4

  Let the nations be glad and shout for joy, for you judge the peoples with uprightness, and the nations on the earth you guide. Selah.

• Psalms 143:10

  Teach me to do your will, for you are my Elohim; may your good spirit lead me in a land of level ground.

• Isaiah 11:4

  but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with uprightness for the humble of the earth; and he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will put to death the wicked.

• Isaiah 40:4

  Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the crooked will become a plain, and the rough places a broad valley.

• Isaiah 42:16

  And I will lead the blind by a way that they have not known; in paths that they have not known I will make them tread; I will make the dark places before them into light, and the crooked places into a plain. These things I will do, and I will not abandon them.

• Jeremiah 21:13

  Look, I am against you, inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain, declares YHWH, you who say, “Who will come down against us? And who will enter into our dwellings?”

• Jeremiah 48:8

  And the devastator will come to every city, and no city will escape; and the valley will perish, and the plain will be destroyed, as YHWH has said.

• Jeremiah 48:21

  And judgment has come upon the land of the plain, upon Holon and upon Jahzah and upon Mephaath,

• Zechariah 4:7

  Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will be a plain; and he will bring out the top stone amid shouts: ‘Favor, favor to it!’”

• Malachi 2:6

  Instruction of truth was in his mouth, and injustice was not found on his lips; in peace and in uprightness he walked with me, and many he turned back from iniquity.