Hitchcock's Bible Names
Jasherrighteous; upright
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Jasher(upright),Book of ("the book of the upright"), alluded to in two passages only of the Old Testament. (Joshua 10:13) and 2Sam 1:18 It was probably written in verse; and it has been conjectured that it was a collection of ancient records of honored men or noble deeds. It is wholly lost.
ATS Bible Dictionary
JasherTHE BOOK OF, that is, the book of the upright, or of the excellent, noble-minded. This work is mentioned in Joshua 10:13, and 2 Samuel 1:18, and would seem to have been a collection of national, historical, triumphal, and elegiac songs, which was still extant in the time of David. Josephus speaks of a book of Jasher as then existing in the temple, but nothing is known respecting it. The books now published under this name are gross forgeries.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
JASHER, BOOK OFja'-sher, jash'-er: the King James Version for JASHAR (which see), and see BETH-HORON, THE BATTLE OF.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Upright. "The Book of Jasher," rendered in the LXX. "the Book of the Upright One," by the Vulgate "the Book of Just Ones," was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in praise of the heroes of Israel, a "book of golden deeds," a national anthology. We have only two specimens from the book, (1) the words of Joshua which he spake to the Lord at the crisis of the battle of Beth-horon (
Joshua 10:12, 13); and (2) "the Song of the Bow," that beautiful and touching mournful elegy which David composed on the occasion of the death of Saul and Jonathan (
2 Samuel 1:18-27).
Strong's Hebrew
3477. yashar -- straight, right... From yashar; straight (literally or figuratively) -- convenient, equity,
Jasher,
just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly
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