Strong H3474יָשַׁר
to smooth
- Transliteration
- yâshar
- Pronunciation
- yaw-shar'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to be straight or even; figuratively to be (causatively to make) {right} {pleasant } prosperous: - {direct} {fit} seem good ({meet}) + please ({well}) be ({esteem} go) right ({on}) bring ({look} {make} take the) straight ({way}) be upright (-ly).
Detailed definition
1) to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go straight
1a2) to be pleasing, be agreeable, be right (fig.)
1a3) to be straightforward, be upright
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to make right, make smooth, make straight
1b2) to lead, direct, lead straight along
1b3) to esteem right, approve
1c) (Pual) to be made level, be laid smoothly out
1d) (Hiphil) to make straight, look straight
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go straight
1a2) to be pleasing, be agreeable, be right (fig.)
1a3) to be straightforward, be upright
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to make right, make smooth, make straight
1b2) to lead, direct, lead straight along
1b3) to esteem right, approve
1c) (Pual) to be made level, be laid smoothly out
1d) (Hiphil) to make straight, look straight
In the Bible
Strong H3474 appears in 26 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- please7
- direct3
- straight3
- make2
- right2
- bring1
- directeth1
- fit1
- go1
- good1
- look1
- meet1
First verses
- Numbers 23:27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
- Judges 14:3Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
- Judges 14:7And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
- 1 Samuel 6:12And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 18:20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
- 1 Samuel 18:26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.
- 2 Samuel 17:4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
- 1 Kings 6:35And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
- 1 Kings 9:12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
- 1 Chronicles 13:4And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
- 2 Chronicles 30:4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- Job 37:3He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
- Psalms 5:8Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
- Proverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Proverbs 9:15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
- Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
- Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.