Strong's Hebrew: 833. אָשַׁר (ashar) -- to go straight, go on, advance

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Lexicon

ashar: to go straight, go on, advance

Original Word: אָשַׁר
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ashar
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-shar')
Short Definition: guide

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of prim. root
Definition
to go straight, go on, advance
NASB Translation
bless (1), call him blessed (1), call the blessed (1), call you blessed (1), called her blessed (1), called me blessed (1), called blessed (1), direct (1), guide (2), guided (1), happy (2), proceed (2), reprove (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אָשַׁר] verb go straight, go on, advance (Assyrian ašâru Zim^{BP 11}; Arabic, Aramaic in derivatives) —

Qal Imperative אִשְׁרוּ Proverbs 9:6 אִשְׁרוּ בְדֶרֶךְ בִּינָה go straight on in the way of understanding.

Pi`el Perfect אִשְּׁרוּ Malachi 3:12; Genesis 30:13; Imperfect תְּאַשֵּׁר Proverbs 4:14 4t.; Imperative אַשֵּׁר Proverbs 23:19; Participle plural מְאַשְּׁרִים Malachi 3:15 2t.; —

1 intensive go straight on, advance Proverbs 4:14.

2 causative lead on Proverbs 23:19; Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 9:15.

3 set right, righten Isaiah 1:17.

4 pronounce happy, call blessed Genesis 30:13 (J) Job 29:11; Psalm 72:17; Proverbs 31:28; Songs 6:9; Malachi 3:12,15.

Pu`al Imperfect יְאֻשַּׁר Psalm 41:3; Participle מְאֻשָּׁר Proverbs 3:18; Isaiah 9:15.

1 be led on Isaiah 9:15.

2 be made happy, blessed Psalm 41:3; Proverbs 3:18.

Strong's

call, be blessed, happy, go, guide, lead, relieve

Or rasher {aw-share'}; a primitive root; to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper -- (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.