Definition

a level, i.e. a plain (often used (with the article prefix) as a proper name of certain districts); figuratively, concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) justice (sometimes adverbially, justly)

Etymology

or מִישֹׁר; from H3474 (יָשַׁר);

Where the KJV renders it

• equity
• even place
• plain
• right(-eously)
• (made) straight
• uprightness

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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