Limitless Word
יָשַׁרyâshar/yaw-shar'/
HebrewH347428 occurrences (KJV)

to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous

KJV renders it: direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).

Where it appears(showing the first 26 of 28)

  • Num 23:27Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
  • Judg 14:3Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
  • Judg 14:7He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
  • 1 Sam 6:12The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
  • 1 Sam 18:20Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
  • 1 Sam 18:26When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
  • 2 Sam 17:4The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 6:35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
  • 1 Kgs 9:12Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
  • 1 Chr 13:4All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
  • 2 Chr 30:4The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
  • 2 Chr 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
  • Job 37:3He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
  • Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
  • Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
  • Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
  • Prov 4:25Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
  • Prov 9:15To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
  • Prov 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 15:21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
  • Isa 40:3The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
  • Isa 45:2“I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
  • Isa 45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Jer 18:4When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
  • Jer 27:5‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
  • Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.