3477. yashar
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yashar: straight, right
Original Word: יָשָׁר
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: yashar
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-shawr')
Short Definition: upright

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from yashar
Definition
straight, right
NASB Translation
conscientious* (1), fittest (1), Jashar (2), just (1), proposal of peace (1), right (35), safe (1), straight (5), upright (51), Upright One (1), uprightly (1), uprightness (1), what (2), what is right (7), what was right (6), which was right (1), who are upright (1), who is upright (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
יָשָׁר adjective straight, right; — ׳י 1 Samuel 29:6 70t.; construct יְשַׁר Proverbs 29:27; feminine יְשָׁרָה Ezekiel 1:7 4t.; plural יְשָׁרִים Numbers 23:10 31t.; construct יִשְׁרֵי Psalm 7:11 8t.; feminine יְשָׁרוֺת Ezekiel 1:23 (strike out Co); —

1 straight, level, of a way Isaiah 26:7; Jeremiah 31:9; Psalm 107:7; Ezra 8:21; foot Ezekiel 1:7; wings Ezekiel 1:23 (? see above)

2 right, pleasing:

a. to God, הַיָּשָׁר בעיני that which is right, pleasing in the eyes of, agreeable to (either construct before ׳י, or with suffixes referring to him), especially in Deuteronomic writers, Exodus 15:26 (R), Deuteronomy 12:25; Deuteronomy 13:19; Deuteronomy 21:9; 1 Kings 11:33,38; 1 Kings 14:8; 1 Kings 15:5,11; 1 Kings 22:43 2Chron 20:32, 2 Kings 10:30; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 14:3; 2 Kings 15:3,34; 2 Kings 16:2; 2 Kings 18:3; 2 Kings 22:3 2Chronicles 24:2; 25:2; 26:4; 27:2; 28:1; 29:2; 34:2; Jeremiah 34:15; ׳הישׁר והטוב בעיני י Deuteronomy 6:18; ׳הטוב והישׁר בעיני י Deuteronomy 12:28; 2Chron 14:1; ׳הטוב והישׁר והאמת לפני י2Chronicles 31:20.

b. to man, (ה)ישׁר בעיני Deuteronomy 12:8; Judges 17:6; Judges 21:25; 2 Samuel 19:7; Jeremiah 40:5; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 21:2; (ה)טוב ו(ה)ישׁר בעיני Joshua 9:25 (D), Jeremiah 26:14; Jeremiah 40:4; יֵשׁ דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר לִפְנֵיאִֿישׁ Proverbs 14:12 there is a way which is pleasing before a man = Proverbs 16:25.

3 straightforward, just upright:

a. of God, צַדִּיק וְיָשָׁר הוא Deuteronomy 32:4 (song); ׳טוב וישׁר י Psalm 25:8; ׳ישׁר י Psalm 92:16; his ways Hosea 14:10; his משׁפטים Nehemiah 9:13; Psalm 119:137; מִּקּוּדִים Psalm 19:9; דָּבָר Psalm 33:4; the words of divine wisdom Proverbs 8:9.

b. of man, God made him upright Ecclesiastes 7:29; but יָשָׁר בָּאָדָם אָ֑יִן Micah 7:2 an upright man among men there is none and yet Job is תָּם וְיָשָׁר Job 1:1 (see Da), Job 1:8; Job 2:3, compare Psalm 37:37; זַךְ וישׁר Job 8:6; so earlier of David as an uprightman 1 Samuel 29:6; of man's doings "" זַךְ Proverbs 20:11, compare Proverbs 21:8; of his way of life "" טובה 1 Samuel 12:23; יְשַׁרדֶּֿרֶךְ Proverbs 29:27; יִשְׁרֵיּדֶֿרֶךְ Psalm 37:14; of his heart, mind, and will, יִשְׁרֵי לֵבָב upright of heart2Chronicles 29:34; יִשְׁרֵילֵֿב Psalm 7:11; Psalm 11:2; Psalm 32:11; Psalm 36:11; Psalm 64:11; Psalm 94:15; Psalm 97:11; יְשָׁרִים בְּלִבּוֺתָם Psalm 125:4.

c. as a noun, (1) with reference to things, יָשָׁר הֶעֱוֵיתִי the right I have perverted Job 33:27; הַיְשָׁרָה יְעַקֵּ֑שׁוּ Micah 3:9 pervert the right (literally twist that which is straight); דֹּבֵר יְשָׁרִים speaketh right things Proverbs 16:13, compare 2 Kings 10:15. (2) more commonly of men, in singular (ה)יָשָׁר Micah 2:7; Micah 7:4; 2 Kings 10:3; Proverbs 21:29; Job 23:7; collective, Psalm 11:7; also in סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר book of the upright Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18 (compare 1 Kings 8:53 ᵐ5; DrIntr. 182), a collection of ancient national poetry; in plural יְשָׁרִים the upright, of pious Israel Numbers 23:10 (song E); elsewhere of the upright among the people of God as distinguished from the wicked, in Wisdom Literature. Job 4:7; Job 17:8; Proverbs 2:7,21; Proverbs 3:32; Proverbs 11:3,6,11; Proverbs 12:6; Proverbs 14:9,11; Proverbs 15:8,19; Proverbs 16:17; Proverbs 21:18; Proverbs 28:10; Proverbs 29:10, in late Psalm 33:1; Psalm 49:15; Psalm 107:42; Psalm 111:1; Psalm 112:2; Psalm 112:4; Psalm 140:14 and Daniel 11:17.

4 abstract, uprightness, בֶּאֱמֶת וְיָשָׁר Psalm 111:8 (Thes), but read rather ישֶׁר with Hi Ri Bae, after ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Jerome.



Strong's
convenient, equity, just, well-pleased, righteous, straight, most uprightly,

From yashar; straight (literally or figuratively) -- convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).

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