# יָשָׁר (yashar)

Israeli respelling: ya-shar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3477. 119 Old Testament occurrences.

straight (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), [phrase] pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yashar-h3477

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/26) — And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear…
- [Numbers 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/10) — Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be…
- [Deuteronomy 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/18) — And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and poss…
- [Deuteronomy 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/8) — Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
- [Deuteronomy 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/25) — Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight…
- [Deuteronomy 12:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/28) — Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou…
- [Deuteronomy 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/18) — When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is r…
- [Deuteronomy 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/9) — So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
- [Deuteronomy 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/4) — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- [Joshua 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/25) — And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
- [Joshua 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/13) — And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book o…
- [Judges 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/17/6) — In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- [Judges 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/25) — In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- [1 Samuel 12:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/23) — Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right w…
- [1 Samuel 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/29/6) — Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with m…
- [2 Samuel 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/18) — (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
- [2 Samuel 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/6) — In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servant…
- [1 Kings 11:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/33) — Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom…
- [1 Kings 11:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/38) — And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my…
- [1 Kings 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/8) — And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandmen…
- [1 Kings 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/5) — Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of h…
- [1 Kings 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/11) — And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
- [1 Kings 22:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/43) — And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: neverthel…
- [2 Kings 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/3) — Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.
- [2 Kings 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/15) — And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thin…
- [2 Kings 10:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/30) — And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Aha…
- [2 Kings 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/12/2) — And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
- [2 Kings 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/3) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father…
- [2 Kings 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/15/3) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
- [2 Kings 15:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/15/34) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
- [2 Kings 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/16/2) — Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of…
- [2 Kings 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/3) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
- [2 Kings 22:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/22/2) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right…
- [2 Chronicles 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/2) — And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
- [2 Chronicles 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/32) — And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
- [2 Chronicles 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/2) — And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
- [2 Chronicles 25:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/2) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
- [2 Chronicles 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/4) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
- [2 Chronicles 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/27/2) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temp…
- [2 Chronicles 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/1) — Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sig…
- [2 Chronicles 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/2) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
- [2 Chronicles 29:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/34) — But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till…
- [2 Chronicles 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/20) — And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
- [2 Chronicles 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/2) — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right han…
- [Ezra 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/21) — Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, a…
- [Nehemiah 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/13) — Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes an…
- [Job 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/1) — There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- [Job 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/8) — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,…
- [Job 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/2/3) — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,…
- [Job 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/7) — Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- [Job 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/6) — If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- [Job 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/8) — Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
- [Job 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/7) — There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- [Job 33:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/27) — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- [Psalms 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/10) — My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/2) — For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/7) — For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
- [Psalms 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/19/8) — The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- [Psalms 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/8) — Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
- [Psalms 32:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/11) — Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
- [Psalms 33:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/1) — Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
- [Psalms 33:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/4) — For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
- [Psalms 36:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/10) — O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/14) — The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversati…
- [Psalms 37:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/37) — Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
- [Psalms 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/14) — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their be…
- [Psalms 64:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/10) — The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
- [Psalms 92:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/15) — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
- [Psalms 94:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/15) — But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
- [Psalms 97:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/11) — Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 107:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/7) — And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
- [Psalms 107:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/42) — The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
- [Psalms 111:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/1) — Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
- [Psalms 111:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/8) — They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
- [Psalms 112:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/2) — His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
- [Psalms 112:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/4) — Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
- [Psalms 119:137](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/137) — Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
- [Psalms 125:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/125/4) — Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
- [Psalms 140:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/13) — Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
- [Proverbs 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/7) — He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
- [Proverbs 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/21) — For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
- [Proverbs 3:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/32) — For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
- [Proverbs 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/9) — They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
- [Proverbs 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/3) — The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
- [Proverbs 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/6) — The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- [Proverbs 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/11) — By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
- [Proverbs 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/6) — The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- [Proverbs 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/15) — The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- [Proverbs 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/9) — Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
- [Proverbs 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/11) — The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
- [Proverbs 14:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/12) — There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- [Proverbs 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/8) — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- [Proverbs 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/19) — The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- [Proverbs 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/13) — Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
- [Proverbs 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/17) — The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
- [Proverbs 16:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/25) — There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- [Proverbs 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/11) — Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
- [Proverbs 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/2) — Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
- [Proverbs 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/8) — The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
- [Proverbs 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/18) — The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
- [Proverbs 21:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/29) — A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
- [Proverbs 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/10) — Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in…
- [Proverbs 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/10) — The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
- [Proverbs 29:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/27) — An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/29) — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- [Isaiah 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/7) — The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
- [Jeremiah 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/14) — As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
- [Jeremiah 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/9) — They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,…
- [Jeremiah 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/15) — And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant befor…
- [Jeremiah 40:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/40/4) — And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon,…
- [Jeremiah 40:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/40/5) — Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath m…
- [Ezekiel 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/7) — And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burn…
- [Ezekiel 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/23) — And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one h…
- [Daniel 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/17) — He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give…
- [Hosea 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/9) — Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall…
- [Micah 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/7) — O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that w…
- [Micah 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/9) — Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
- [Micah 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/2) — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his bro…
- [Micah 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/4) — The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shal…