meshar · uprightness

What it means

meshar (מֵישָׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “uprightness”.

What is straight, level, not crooked. It is said of upright conduct and of judging with justice.

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. What is upright and just, in what is spoken or judged.
2. Smoothly, without roughness: the way good wine goes down.
3. A pact or arrangement between two parties, above all between two kings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• uprightness ×14
• smoothly ×2
• agreement ×1
• uprightly ×1
• what is right ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×5
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×1

• 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.

• Psalms 9:8

  And he will judge the world in righteousness; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 17:2

  From before you let my judgment come forth; let your eyes see uprightness.

• Psalms 58:1

  For the director. Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam. Do you really speak righteousness in silence? With uprightness do you judge, human beings?

• Psalms 75:2

  “When I take the appointed time, I will judge with uprightness.

• Psalms 96:10

  Say among the nations, “YHWH reigns!” The world also is firm; it will not be shaken; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 98:9

  before YHWH, for he comes to judge the earth; he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 99:4

  And the strength of the king loves justice; you have established uprightness; justice and righteousness in Jacob you have done.

• Proverbs 1:3

  to receive the correction of prudence, righteousness, justice, and uprightness;

• Proverbs 2:9

  Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and uprightness, every good track.

• Proverbs 8:6

  Listen, for noble things I will speak, and the opening of my lips will be uprightness.

• Proverbs 23:16

  and my kidneys will exult when your lips speak what is right.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Do not look at wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Song of Songs 1:4

  Draw me after you; let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers; we will exult and rejoice in you; we will recall your love more than wine; with uprightness they love you.

• Song of Songs 7:9

  and your palate like the good wine that goes to my beloved smoothly, that makes the lips of sleepers speak.

• Isaiah 26:7

  The path of the righteous is uprightness; you, Upright One, level the track of the righteous.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks in righteous deeds and speaks uprightly, who rejects the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding a bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

• Isaiah 45:19

  I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness.’ I, YHWH, speak righteousness, I declare uprightness.

• Daniel 11:6

  And at the end of some years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of the arm, and he will not stand, nor his arm; and she will be given up, and those who brought her, and he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times.