יָשָׁרyâshâr
straight, right
Pronunciation: yaw-shawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3477
Meanings
1. straight, level (Isaiah 26:7; Jeremiah 31:9; Psalms 107:7)
2. right, pleasing
a. to God, that which is right, pleasing in the eyes of, agreeable to (Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 12:25; Deuteronomy 13:19)
b. to man, there is a way which is pleasing before a man (Deuteronomy 12:8; Judges 17:6; Judges 21:25)
3. straightforward, just, upright
a. of God (Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 25:8; Psalms 92:16)
b. of man, upright (Ecclesiastes 7:29; Micah 7:2; Job 1:1)
c. the right I have perverted, pervert the right (Job 33:27; Micah 3:9; Proverbs 16:13)
4. uprightness, but read rather ישֶׁר (Psalms 111:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 119 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”
- Numbers 23:10 Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust? Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people? Let me die like the righteous; let my life end like theirs.”
- Deuteronomy 6:18 Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so all will go well with you. Then you will enter and occupy the good land that the Lord swore to give your ancestors.
- Deuteronomy 12:8 “Your pattern of worship will change. Today all of you are doing as you please,
- Deuteronomy 12:25 Do not consume the blood, so that all may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what pleases the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 12:28 Be careful to obey all my commands, so that all will go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and pleasing to the Lord your God.
See every passage
- Exodus 15:26
- Numbers 23:10
- Deuteronomy 6:18, 12:8, 12:25, 12:28, 13:18, 21:9, 32:4
- Joshua 9:25, 10:13
- Judges 17:6, 21:25
- 1 Samuel 12:23, 29:6
- 2 Samuel 1:18, 19:6
- 1 Kings 11:33, 11:38, 14:8, 15:5, 15:11, 22:43
- 2 Kings 10:3, 10:15, 10:30, 12:2, 14:3, 15:3, 15:34, 16:2, 18:3, 22:2
- 2 Chronicles 14:2, 20:32, 24:2, 25:2, 26:4, 27:2, 28:1, 29:2, 29:34, 31:20, 34:2
- Ezra 8:21
- Nehemiah 9:13
- Job 1:1, 1:8, 2:3, 4:7, 8:6, 17:8, 23:7, 33:27
- Psalms 7:10, 11:2, 11:7, 19:8, 25:8, 32:11, 33:1, 33:4, 36:10, 37:14, 37:37, 49:14, 64:10, 92:15, 94:15, 97:11, 107:7, 107:42, 111:1, 111:8, 112:2, 112:4, 119:137, 125:4, 140:13
- Proverbs 2:7, 2:21, 3:32, 8:9, 11:3, 11:6, 11:11, 12:6, 12:15, 14:9, 14:11, 14:12, 15:8, 15:19, 16:13, 16:17, 16:25, 20:11, 21:2, 21:8, 21:18, 21:29, 28:10, 29:10, 29:27
- Ecclesiastes 7:29
- Isaiah 26:7
- Jeremiah 26:14, 31:9, 34:15, 40:4, 40:5
- Ezekiel 1:7, 1:23
- Daniel 11:17
- Hosea 14:9
- Micah 2:7, 3:9, 7:2, 7:4
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).