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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

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  • Isaiah 40:3
    The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  • Isaiah 45:2
    I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
  • Isaiah 45:13
    I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Jeremiah 18:4
    And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
  • Jeremiah 27:5
    I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
  • Habakkuk 2:4
    Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.