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The meaning of יָשַׁר

Understanding yâshar reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.

Definition

direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight...

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יָשַׁר

Phoneticyaw-shar'
Transliterationyâshar
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Hebrew Verb
Strong's Definition
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly). - to be straight or even - figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous 1) to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go straight 1a2) to be pleasing, be agreeable, be right (fig.) 1a3) to be straightforward, be upright 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make right, make smooth, make straight 1b2) to lead, direct, lead straight along 1b3) to esteem right, approve 1c) (Pual) to be made level, be laid smoothly out 1d) (Hiphil) to make straight, look straight

Scripture References

Occurrences in the Bible

26 total references
ReferenceText
Numbers 23:27

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Word: יָשַׁר (yâshar)
1 Samuel 18:20

And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

Word: יָשַׁר (yâshar)
1 Kings 9:12

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

Word: יָשַׁר (yâshar)
2 Chronicles 32:30

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Word: יָשַׁר (yâshar)
Psalms 119:128

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

Word: יָשַׁר (yâshar)

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