יָשָׁר yashar

Hebrew word for “upright” · Strong’s H3477 · used 119 times in 119 verses

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Meaning

1) straight, upright, correct, right;

Senses in the lexicon

• upright (113)
• upright (4)
• Jashar (2)

How it is translated

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

• right 41
• upright people 25
• upright 22
• people upright 9
• upright person 5
• straight 5
• uprightness 2
• upright things 2
• place right 2
• jashar 2
• would be right 1
• person upright 1

Where it is used

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Proverbs 21 (4), Deuteronomy 12 (3), 2 Kings 10 (3), Proverbs 11 (3), Proverbs 14 (3), Proverbs 16 (3), 1 Kings 11 (2), 1 Kings 15 (2), 2 Kings 15 (2), 2 Chronicles 29 (2)

Forms

• הישׁר 35
• ישׁרים 25
• ישׁר 19
• וישׁר 11
• ישׁרי 6
• והישׁר 5
• לישׁרים 3
• ישׁרה 3
• וישׁרים 3
• וכישׁר 2

Words used with it

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

• עַיִן ayin “eye” 43
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 24
• צַדִּיק tsaddiq “righteous” 13
• טוֹב tov “pleasant” 15
• אָב av “father” 18
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 15
• דָּוִד david “David” 13
• רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 9
• סוּר sur “to turn aside” 9
• לֵב lev “heart” 10
• תָּם tam “complete” 5
• רַק raq “except” 6

Key verses

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

• 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 to his…
• 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.
• 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, and for our little…
• 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 and commandments:
• 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 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 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 — Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
• Proverbs 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• 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, wherein they shall…
• 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 walk in them: but…
• 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 brother with a net.

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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.