יָשַׁרyâshar
be smooth, straight, right
Pronunciation: yaw-shar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3474
Meanings
Qal
1. go straight (1 Samuel 6:12)
2. be pleasing, agreeable, right (Judges 14:3; Judges 14:7; Jeremiah 27:5)
3. straightforward, upright, in ethical sense (Habakkuk 2:4)
Pi`el
1. make smooth, straight (Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 45:2; Isaiah 45:13)
2. lead straight along, direct (2 Chronicles 32:30; Job 37:3)
3. esteem right, approve (Psalms 119:128)
Pu`al: gold made level, laid smoothly out, upon the graven work. (1 Kings 6:35)
Hiph`il: let thine eyelids look straight before thee; Imperative, make thy way even (Proverbs 4:25; Psalms 5:9)
Same root
- יֵשֶׁרYêsher · H3475Jesher, an Israelite
- יֹשֶׁרyôsher · H3476the right
- יָשָׁרyâshâr · H3477straight (literally or figuratively)
- יְשֻׁרוּןYᵉshurûwn · H3484Jeshurun, a symbolic name for Israel
- מִישׁוֹרmîyshôwr · H4334a level, i.e. a plain (often used (with the article prefix) as a proper name of certain districts); figuratively, concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) justice (sometimes adverbially, justly)
- מֵישָׁרmêyshâr · H4339evenness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially)
- שָׁרוֹןShârôwn · H8289plain, Sharon, the name of a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 23:27 Then King Balak said to Balaam, “Come, I will take you to one more place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them from there.”
- Judges 14:3 His father and mother objected. “Isn’t there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.”
- Judges 14:7 When Samson arrived in Timnah, he talked with the woman and was very pleased with her.
- 1 Samuel 6:12 And sure enough, without veering off in other directions, the cows went straight along the road toward Beth-shemesh, lowing as they went. The Philistine rulers followed them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 18:20 In the meantime, Saul’s daughter Michal had fallen in love with David, and Saul was delighted when he heard about it.
- 1 Samuel 18:26 David was delighted to accept the offer. Before the time limit expired,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).