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JESHURUN.—A poetic or a pet-name for Israel which occurs four times in the OT (Deu_32:15; Deu_33:5; Deu_33:26, Isa_44:2). It is found in the later writings, and represents a patriotic feeling that Israel was = yashar-Ei, ‘the upright of God.’ If this be so, then we may accept the rendering of Jeshurun as the ‘righteous little people.’ In Balaam’s elegy,’ Let me die the death of the righteous’ seems to refer to the Israel of the preceding clause, and in Psa_83:1 the thought which underlies Jeshurun appears, if we adopt the tempting reading: ‘Truly God is good to the upright.’
W. F. Cobb.