מֵישָׁר
uprightness
also: evenness, straightness, equity fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4339 appears in the Book of Psalms — 7 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
- Psalms 9:8 בְּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים prep + n c mp He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
- Psalms 17:2 מֵישָׁרִֽים n c mp Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look on equity.
- Psalms 58:1 מֵישָׁרִ֥ים n c mp Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
- Psalms 75:2 מֵישָׁרִ֥ים n c mp When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
- Psalms 96:10 בְּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים prep + n c mp Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
- Psalms 98:9 בְּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים prep + n c mp Let them sing before Yahweh, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
- Psalms 99:4 מֵישָׁרִ֑ים n c mp The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, מישר (mêyshâr) means “uprightness.” Not a single-sense word, it carries 4 senses, among them “evenness”, “straightness”, and “equity”. With 19 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Psalms (37% of all occurrences). First canonically at 1 Chronicles 29:17, it enters the text early. Dig into 19-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4339 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,563
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,563 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 19 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 84%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Equity 4×, Uprightly 3×, Uprightness 2×
- American Standard Version: Equity 6×, Down smoothly 2×, Uprightly 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Equity 6×, Is right 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fairness 3×, Uprightnesses 3×, Evenness 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4339 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4339 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4339 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4339 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- evenness, uprightness, straightness, equity
- evenness, level, smoothness
- uprightness, equity
- rightly (as adverb)
Word origin
Derived from ישר (yâshar) (H3474) — to be right.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מֵישַׁר
- straight line, horizontal, level. Kidd. II, 6 לעשות שדהו מ׳ מ׳ to divide his field in straight lines (beds) of various seeds (instead of squares, מרובע). Y. ib. II, 28ᵃ top. Y. Erub. IV, 21ᵈ bot. a telescope (v. מְצוֹפוֹת) שהיה משער בה עיניו במ׳ the horizontal range of which he had tested before (v. Bab. Erub. 43ᵇ).—Y. ib. V, 22ᵈ top [read:] מביא מצופות ומשער … במ׳ וכ׳ he takes a telescope and tests its horizontal range, and then &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H4339 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֵישָׁרִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 45:19 | 4 |
| בְּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 23:31 | 3 |
| מֵֽישָׁרִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 26:7 | 2 |
| מֵישָׁרִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 11:6 | 2 |
| מֵישָׁרִ֥ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 58:1 | 2 |
| בְּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 9:8 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵישָׁרִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 29:17 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵישָׁרִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 1:3 | 1 |
| וּ֝/מֵישָׁרִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 2:9 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵישָׁרִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Song of Solomon 7:9 | 1 |
| מֵישָׁרִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Song of Solomon 1:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4339, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 19 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 19 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
