מִישׁוֹר
mîyshôwr · H4334 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences
Meanings
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plain, plateau, tableland
An area of fairly level, high ground; sometimes associated with a lack of obstacles, both literally and figuratively
Examples1 Kings 20:23 Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the mountains; for that reason they were stronger than we. But let us fight them in the plain, and we will certainly be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20:25 and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and we will certainly be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.
Psalm 26:12 My foot stands on level ground; In the congregations I will bless the LORD.
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the Tableland, Mishor
An elevated flat area east of the Jordan, located between the river Arnon in the south and Wadi Heshbon in the north
ExamplesDeuteronomy 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 on 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 edge of the Valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;
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fairness, equity, uprightness
Literally: smoothness; hence: state in which an event is morally and ethically right
ExamplesPsalm 45:6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever; The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.
Psalm 67:4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy; For You will judge the peoples with fairness And guide the nations on the earth. Selah
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness 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 slay the wicked.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֵידְבָאMedeba 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַדto destroy, to exterminate, to wipe out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 12
- לto/for 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 5 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 3
- עִירcity, town 2
- צוּרrock 1
- אֹרַחpath, way 1
- שֵׁבֶטtribe, rod 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- צְדָקָה tsᵉdâqâh · H6666 · righteousness, justice, deliverance
- מִישׁוֹר (mîyshôwr, H4334) spans both concrete topographical meanings ("plain," "even place") and abstract moral meanings ("equity," "uprightness," "right"), while צְדָקָה (tsᵉdâqâh, H6666) is consistently abstract ("justice," "righteousness," "right").
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Landforms001002003
- מִישׁוֹר most often names a level plain or plateau, a geographic landform, as in the repeated references to "the plain" of Reubenite and Gadite territory east of the Jordan (Deuteronomy 3:10; 4:43; Joshua 13:9, 16-17).
- Names of Landforms003001008
- The same term is used as part of specific place-name designations for this plateau region, functioning as a landform's proper geographic name rather than a generic description.
- Right002001003013
- The word extends figuratively from level, even ground to moral evenness — equity, uprightness, or straightness of conduct — as in the parallel sense carried by its related form מֵישָׁר (mêyshâr, H4339).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4334. mishor מִישׁוֺר noun masculineJer 48:8 level place, uprightness; — ׳מ Psa 27:11…
מִישׁוֺר noun masculineJer 48:8 level place, uprightness; — ׳מ Psa 27:11 Psa 27:9t.; מִישֹׁר Zec 4:7 (see Baer) + 12 t.; —
1 level country, table-land, plain: antith. הר(יםׅ 1Ki 20:23, 1Ki 20:25; Zec 4:7; עָקֹב Isa 40:4 מַעֲקַשִּׁים Isa 42:16 + שְׁפֵלָה2Ch 26:10; || עֵמֶק Jer 21:13; הַמִּישׁוֺר specifically of the elevated plateau or table-land between the Arnon and Heshbon Deu 3:10; Deu 4:43; Jos 13:9, Jos 13:16, Jos 13:17, Jos 13:21; Jos 20:8; Jer 48:8, Jer 48:21.
2 level place (free from obstacles), figurative for place of safety, comfort, and prosperity Psa 26:12; מ ׳ארח Psa 27:11 מ ׳אֶרֶץ Psa 143:10.
3 uprightness (compare מֵישָׁר 2), in government Psa 67:5; מ ׳שֵׁבֶט Psa 45:7; || צֶדֶק Isa 11:4; שָׁלוֺם Mal 2:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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