Jasher

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jasher
     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 (Josh. 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 Sam. 1:18-27).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jasher, righteous; upright