H3474

ישר

yashar

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous:—direct, fit, seem good (meet), please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).

Outline

to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth

(Qal)

to go straight
to be pleasing, be agreeable, be right (fig.)
to be straightforward, be upright

(Piel)

to make right, make smooth, make straight
to lead, direct, lead straight along
to esteem right, approve

(Pual) to be made level, be laid smoothly out
(Hiphil) to make straight, look straight

Usages

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.

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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.

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Judges 14:7

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

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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.

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1 Samuel 18:20

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

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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.

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2 Samuel 17:4

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

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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.

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1 Kings 9:12

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

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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.

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2 Chronicles 30:4

And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

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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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Job 37:3

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

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Psalms 5:8

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

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Psalms 119:128

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

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Proverbs 3:6

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

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Proverbs 4:25

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

Stay Focused

Proverbs 16:3 Matthew 6:24 Matthew 6:33 Colossians 2:6 2 Timothy 2:15 James 1:8

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Proverbs 9:15

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

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Proverbs 11:5

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

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Proverbs 15:21

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

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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Jeremiah 27:5

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

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Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Breakdown

The first half of this verse is in reference to the Edomites, but the second half is referring to the hopeful elect of Israel (only the Lords servants can have faith Hebrews 11)

Faith

Psalms 23:4 Proverbs 3:5 Ecclesiasticus 2:10 2 Maccabees 7:1 Matthew 6:25 2 Corinthians 5:7 Galatians 2:16 Ephesians 2:8 Ephesians 6:16 Hebrews 11:6 2 Peter 2:9

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