# יָשַׁר (yashar) Israeli respelling: ya-shar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H3474. 26 Old Testament occurrences. to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous King James renderings: direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yashar-h3474 ## Occurrences - [Numbers 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/27) — And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse… - [Judges 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/3) — Then 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… - [Judges 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/7) — And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. - [1 Samuel 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/12) — And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the… - [1 Samuel 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/20) — And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. - [1 Samuel 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/26) — And 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 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/4) — And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. - [1 Kings 6:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/35) — And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work. - [1 Kings 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/12) — And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. - [1 Chronicles 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/13/4) — And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. - [2 Chronicles 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/4) — And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. - [2 Chronicles 32:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Hez… - [Job 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/3) — He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. - [Psalms 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/5/8) — Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. - [Psalms 119:128](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/128) — Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. - [Proverbs 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/6) — In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - [Proverbs 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/25) — Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. - [Proverbs 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/15) — To call passengers who go right on their ways: - [Proverbs 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/5) — The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. - [Proverbs 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/21) — Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. - [Isaiah 40:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pri… - [Jeremiah 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Habakkuk 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/4) — Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.