יָשַׁר yâshar

Meaning

to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous

In the King James Version: direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Numbers 23:27 “Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”
• Judges 14:3 But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
• Judges 14:7 Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
• 1 Samuel 6:12 And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
• 1 Samuel 18:20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
• 1 Samuel 18:26 When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
• 2 Samuel 17:4 This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
• 1 Kings 6:35 He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
• 1 Kings 9:12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
• 1 Chronicles 13:4 And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.
• 2 Chronicles 30:4 This plan pleased the king and the whole assembly.
• 2 Chronicles 32:30 It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
• Psalms 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
• Psalms 119:128 Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
• Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
• Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
• Proverbs 9:15 calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.
• Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
• Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
• Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
• Isaiah 45:2 “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
• Isaiah 45:13 I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
• Jeremiah 18:4 But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
• Jeremiah 27:5 By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
• Habakkuk 2:4 Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—