Beginnings
GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomy
Judges
JoshuaJudgesRuth
Kingdoms
1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings
Chronicles
1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEsther
Poetry
JobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of Solomon
Prophets
IsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDaniel
Minor Prophets
HoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicah
NahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachi
Messiah
MatthewMarkLukeJohnActs
Paul's Letters
Romans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians
1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrews
General Letters
James1 Peter2 Peter1 John
2 John3 JohnJude
Revelation
Revelation
Kept for this visit
Notes, starred verses and bookmarks kept while signed out last until this visit ends. Create a free account and everything you keep here moves into it, saved for good.
Create an account Sign in

Strong's numbers

יָשַׁר (H3474)

yâshar

yaw-shar'

a primitive root; to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous; direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

יָשַׁר vb. be smooth, straight, right
Qal
1 go straight
2 fig., be pleasing, agreeable, right
3 in ethical sense, straightforward, upright
Pi.
1 make smooth, straight
2 lead straight along, direct
3 esteem right, approve
Pu. gold made level, laid smoothly out, upon the graven work
Hiph. let thine eyelids look straight before thee

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

26 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:4
    And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:30
    This 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 37:3
    He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
  • Psalms 5:8
    Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
  • Psalms 119:128
    Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
  • Proverbs 3:6
    In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
  • Proverbs 4:25
    Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
  • Proverbs 9:15
    To call passengers who go right on their ways:
  • Proverbs 11:5
    The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Proverbs 15:21
    Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.