יָשַׁר
Definition and meaning
yashar (yaw-shar') v. 1. to be straight or even 2. (figuratively) to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous [a primitive root] KJV: direct, fit, seem good (meet), + please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).
Tagged KJV passages
26 matching verses - 29.0 tagged occurrences
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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.
Matched English: pleaseJudges 14:3Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Matched English: wellJudges 14:7And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
Matched English: pleased, well1 Samuel 6:12And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
Matched English: straight1 Samuel 18:20And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
Matched English: pleased1 Samuel 18:26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
Matched English: pleased2 Samuel 17:4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Matched English: pleased1 Kings 6:35And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
Matched English: fitted1 Kings 9:12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
Matched English: pleased1 Chronicles 13:4And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
Matched English: right2 Chronicles 30:4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
Matched English: pleased2 Chronicles 32:30This 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.
Matched English: straightJob 37:3He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Matched English: directethPsalms 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Matched English: straightPsalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Matched English: rightProverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Matched English: directProverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Matched English: straightProverbs 9:15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Matched English: rightProverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matched English: directProverbs 15:21Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Matched English: uprightlyIsaiah 40:3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Matched English: straightIsaiah 45:2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Matched English: make, straightIsaiah 45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matched English: directJeremiah 18:4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Matched English: good