יָשַׁר yashar

Hebrew word for “to smooth” · Strong’s H3474 · used 25 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

1) to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth;

How it is translated

Glosses given for yashar in context, with how often each is used:

• pleasing 10
• make straight 2
• makes straight 2
• will make smooth 2
• will be pleasing 1
• straight 1
• made smooth 1
• directed 1
• approve 1
• will make straight 1
• them look straight 1
• those who make straight 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 14 (2), 1 Samuel 18 (2), Isaiah 45 (2), Numbers 23 (1), 1 Samuel 6 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Kings 6 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 1 Chronicles 13 (1), 2 Chronicles 30 (1)

Forms

• יישׁר 3
• ישׁר 3
• ישׁרה 2
• וישׁר 2
• ויישׁר 2
• ישׁרו 2
• אישׁר 2
• ותישׁר 1
• וישׁרנה 1
• מישׁר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yashar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עַיִן ayin “eye” 12
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 7
• אֹרַח orach “way” 3
• דָּבָר davar “word” 5
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 5
• מְסִלָּה mesillah “highway” 2
• שִׁמְשׁוֹן shimshon “Samson” 2
• קָהָל qahal “assembly” 2
• צְדָקָה tsedaqah “righteousness” 2
• אַחֵר acher “another” 2
• דָּוִד david “David” 3
• עִיר ir “city” 3

Key verses

The verses using yashar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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 goest to take a…
• 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…
• 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. פ PE.
• 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 11:5 — The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
• 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…
• 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…
• Habakkuk 2:4 — Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.