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H3474Hebrew

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

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

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.

Matched English: please
Judges 14:3

Then 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: well
Judges 14:7

And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

Matched English: pleased, well
1 Samuel 6:12

And 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: straight
1 Samuel 18:20

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

Matched English: pleased
1 Samuel 18:26

And 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: pleased
2 Samuel 17:4

And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

Matched English: pleased
1 Kings 6:35

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

Matched English: fitted
1 Kings 9:12

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

Matched English: pleased
1 Chronicles 13:4

And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

Matched English: right
2 Chronicles 30:4

And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

Matched English: pleased
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.

Matched English: straight
Job 37:3

He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Matched English: directeth
Psalms 5:8

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Matched English: straight
Psalms 119:128

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

Matched English: right
Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Matched English: direct
Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Matched English: straight
Proverbs 9:15

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

Matched English: right
Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Matched English: direct
Proverbs 15:21

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

Matched English: uprightly
Isaiah 40:3

The 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: straight
Isaiah 45:2

I 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, straight
Isaiah 45:13

I 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: direct
Jeremiah 18:4

And 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