Lexical Definition

‎יְשֻׁרוּן‎ Yᵉshurûwn (yesh-oo-roon') Jeshurun ^N:N-M-P
from ‎יָשַׁר‎; upright

Jeshurun.

• § Jeshurun = "upright one"
• Jeshurun, a symbolic name for Israel

1) a symbolic name for Israel describing her ideal character

Extended Information

name of: יִשְׂרָאֵל

• A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.26
• son of: Isaac (יִצְחָק) and Rebekah (רִבְקָה)
• brother of: Esau (עֵשָׂו); married to Rachel (רָחֵל), Leah (לֵאָה), Zilpah (זִלְפָּה) and Bilhah (בִּלְהָה)
• father of: Reuben (רְאוּבֵן), Simeon (שִׁמְעוֹן), Levi (לֵוִי), Judah (יְהוּדָה), Dan (דָּן), Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי), Gad (גָּד), Asher (אָשֵׁר), Issachar (יִשָּׂשכָר), Zebulun (זְבוּלוּן), Dinah (דִּינָה), Joseph (יוֹסֵף) and Benjamin (בִּנְיָמִין); also called Jacob frequently
• Another name of yis.ra.el (‎י‎ִ‎ש‎ְׂ‎ר‎ָ‎א‎ֵ‎ל‎ "Israel" יִשְׂרָאֵל)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יְשֻׁרוּן‎ proper name, masculine (upright one) Deut 32:15; Deut 33:5; Deut 33:26; Isa 44:2 poetic name of Israel, designating it under its ideal character,ᵐ5 ὁ ἠγαπημένος, Aq Symm Theod εὐθύς, ᵑ9 rectissimus, dilectus; Thes Ew^{§ 167 a} Lag^{BN 33} regard it as diminutive from ‎יָשׁוּר‎ = good little people; but no evidence that ‎וּן‎- has a diminutive force, and most recent scholars De Di Dr MV Ges^{«GKC:86»§ 86} (2). 4 take as denominative = Rechtvolk; Bacher^{ZAW v, 1885, 161 ff.} and Che rightly compare ‎סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר‎ (see ‎יָשָׁר‎ 3 e).

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