Occurrences
Yôsher occurs 14 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Job (3), Psalms (2), Proverbs (5), Ecclesiastes (1)
- Deuteronomy 9:5 — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness (וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙) of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- 1 Kings 9:4 — And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness (וּבְיֹ֔שֶׁר), to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
- 1 Chronicles 29:17 — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness (בְּיֹ֤שֶׁר). As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
- Job 6:25 — How forcible are right (יֹ֑שֶׁר) words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
- Job 33:3 — My words shall be of the uprightness (יֹֽשֶׁר) of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
- Job 33:23 — If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness (יָשְׁרֽוֹ):
- Psalms 25:21 — Let integrity and uprightness (וָיֹ֥שֶׁר) preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- Psalms 119:7 — I will praise thee with uprightness (בְּיֹ֣שֶׁר) of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
- Proverbs 2:13 — Who leave the paths of uprightness (יֹ֑שֶׁר), to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Proverbs 4:11 — I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right (יֹֽשֶׁר) paths.
- Proverbs 11:24 — There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet (מִ֝יֹּ֗שֶׁר), but it tendeth to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:2 — He that walketh in his uprightness (בְּ֭יָשְׁרוֹ) feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
- Proverbs 17:26 — Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity (יֹֽשֶׁר).
- Ecclesiastes 12:10 — The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright (יֹ֖שֶׁר), even words of truth.