Strong's Hebrew · H3474
יָשַׁר
yâshar · yaw-shar'
Definitionto be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagedirect, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).
Occurrences26 in the KJV · 26 verses
יָשַׁר in Scripture
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.
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.
Judges 14:7
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
1 Samuel 6:12
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth -shemesh, 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 Beth -shemesh.
1 Samuel 18:20
And Michal Saul' s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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.
2 Samuel 17:4
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
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.
1 Kings 9:12
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
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.
2 Chronicles 30:4
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
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.
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