Definition

evenness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially)

Etymology

from H3474 (יָשַׁר);

Where the KJV renders it

• agreement
• aright
• that are equal
• equity
• (things that are) right(-eously
• things)
• sweetly
• upright(-ly
• -ness)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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