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Lexicon :: Strong's H3477 - yāšār

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יָשָׁר
Transliteration
yāšār
Pronunciation
yaw-shawr'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 930a

Strong’s Definitions

יָשָׁר yâshâr, yaw-shawr'; from H3474; straight (literally or figuratively):—convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 119x

The KJV translates Strong's H3477 in the following manner: right (53x), upright (42x), righteous (9x), straight (3x), convenient (2x), Jasher (2x), equity (1x), just (1x), meet (1x), meetest (1x), upright ones (1x), uprightly (1x), uprightness (1x), well (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 119x
The KJV translates Strong's H3477 in the following manner: right (53x), upright (42x), righteous (9x), straight (3x), convenient (2x), Jasher (2x), equity (1x), just (1x), meet (1x), meetest (1x), upright ones (1x), uprightly (1x), uprightness (1x), well (1x).

  1. straight, upright, correct, right

    1. straight, level

    2. right, pleasing, correct

    3. straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper

    4. uprightness, righteous, upright

    5. that which is upright (subst)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָשָׁר yâshâr, yaw-shawr'; from H3474; straight (literally or figuratively):—convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
STRONGS H3477: Abbreviations
† יָשָׁר adjective straight, right; — י׳ 1 Samuel 29:6 + 70 times; construct יְשַׁר Proverbs 29:27; feminine יְשָׁרָה Ezekiel 1:7 + 4 times; plural יְשָׁרִים Numbers 23:10 + 31 times; construct יִשְׁרֵי Psalm 7:11 + 8 times; feminine יְשָׁרוֺת Ezekiel 1:23 (strike out Co); —
1. straight, level, of a way Isaiah 26:7; Jeremiah 31:9; Psalm 107:7; Ezra 8:21; foot Ezekiel 1:7; wings Ezekiel 1:23 (? see above)
2. right, pleasing:
a. to God, הַיָּשָׁר בעיני that which is right, pleasing in the eyes of, agreeable to (either construct before י׳, or with suffixes referring to him), especially in Deuteronomic writers, Exodus 15:26 (R), Deuteronomy 12:25; Deuteronomy 13:19; Deuteronomy 21:9; 1 Kings 11:33, 38; 1 Kings 14:8; 1 Kings 15:5, 11; 1 Kings 22:43 2 Chronicles 20:32, 2 Kings 10:30; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 14:3; 2 Kings 15:3, 34; 2 Kings 16:2; 2 Kings 18:3; 2 Kings 22:3 2 Chronicles 24:2; 25:2; 26:4; 27:2; 28:1; 29:2; 34:2; Jeremiah 34:15; הישׁר והטוב בעיני י׳ Deuteronomy 6:18; הטוב והישׁר בעיני י׳ Deuteronomy 12:28; 2 Chronicles 14:1; הטוב והישׁר והאמת לפני י׳ 2 Chronicles 31:20.
b. to man, (ה)ישׁר בעיני Deuteronomy 12:8; Judges 17:6; Judges 21:25; 2 Samuel 19:7; Jeremiah 40:5; Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 21:2; (ה)טוב ו(ה)ישׁר בעיני Joshua 9:25 (D), Jeremiah 26:14; Jeremiah 40:4; יֵשׁ דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר לִפְנֵיאִֿישׁ Proverbs 14:12 there is a way which is pleasing before a man = Proverbs 16:25.
3. straightforward, just upright:
a. of God, צַדִּיק וְיָשָׁר הוא Deuteronomy 32:4 (song); טוב וישׁר י׳ Psalm 25:8; ישׁר י׳ Psalm 92:16; his ways Hosea 14:10; his משׁפטים Nehemiah 9:13; Psalm 119:137; פִּקּוּדִים Psalm 19:9; דָּבָר Psalm 33:4; the words of divine wisdom Proverbs 8:9.
b. of man, God made him upright Ecclesiastes 7:29; but יָשָׁר בָּאָדָם אָ֑יִן Micah 7:2 an upright man among men there is none and yet Job is תָּם וְיָשָׁר Job 1:1 (see Da), Job 1:8; Job 2:3, compare Psalm 37:37; זַךְ וישׁר Job 8:6; so earlier of David as an uprightman 1 Samuel 29:6; of man's doings || זַךְ Proverbs 20:11, compare Proverbs 21:8; of his way of life || טובה 1 Samuel 12:23; יְשַׁרדֶּֿרֶךְ Proverbs 29:27; יִשְׁרֵיּדֶֿרֶךְ Psalm 37:14; of his heart, mind, and will, יִשְׁרֵי לֵבָב upright of heart 2 Chronicles 29:34; יִשְׁרֵילֵֿב Psalm 7:11; Psalm 11:2; Psalm 32:11; Psalm 36:11; Psalm 64:11; Psalm 94:15; Psalm 97:11; יְשָׁרִים בְּלִבּוֺתָם Psalm 125:4.
c. as a noun,
(1) with reference to things, יָשָׁר הֶעֱוֵיתִי the right I have perverted Job 33:27; הַיְשָׁרָה יְעַקֵּ֑שׁוּ Micah 3:9 pervert the right (literally twist that which is straight); דֹּבֵר יְשָׁרִים speaketh right things Proverbs 16:13, compare 2 Kings 10:15.
(2) more commonly of men, in singular (ה)יָשָׁר Micah 2:7; Micah 7:4; 2 Kings 10:3; Proverbs 21:29; Job 23:7; collective, Psalm 11:7; also in סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר book of the upright Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18 (compare 1 Kings 8:53 Greek Version of the LXX; DrIntr. 182), a collection of ancient national poetry; in plural יְשָׁרִים the upright, of pious Israel Numbers 23:10 (song E); elsewhere of the upright among the people of God as distinguished from the wicked, in Wisdom Literature. Job 4:7; Job 17:8; Proverbs 2:7, 21; Proverbs 3:32; Proverbs 11:3, 6, 11; Proverbs 12:6; Proverbs 14:9, 11; Proverbs 15:8, 19; Proverbs 16:17; Proverbs 21:18; Proverbs 28:10; Proverbs 29:10, in late Psalm 33:1; Psalm 49:15; Psalm 107:42; Psalm 111:1; Psalm 112:2; Psalm 112:4; Psalm 140:14 and Daniel 11:17.
4. abstract, uprightness, בֶּאֱמֶת וְיָשָׁר Psalm 111:8 (Thes), but read rather ישֶׁר with Hi Ri Bae, after Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Targum Jerome.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

15:26

Numbers

23:10; 23:10

Deuteronomy

6:18; 12:8; 12:25; 12:28; 21:9; 32:4

Joshua

9:25; 10:13

Judges

17:6; 21:25

1 Samuel

12:23; 29:6; 29:6

2 Samuel

1:18; 19:7

1 Kings

8:53; 11:33; 11:38; 14:8; 15:5; 15:11; 22:43

2 Kings

10:3; 10:15; 10:30; 12:3; 14:3; 15:3; 15:34; 16:2; 18:3; 22:3

2 Chronicles

14:1; 20:32; 24:2; 25:2; 26:4; 27:2; 28:1; 29:2; 29:34; 31:20; 34:2

Ezra

8:21

Nehemiah

9:13

Job

1:1; 1:8; 2:3; 4:7; 8:6; 17:8; 23:7; 33:27

Psalms

7:11; 7:11; 11:2; 11:7; 19:9; 25:8; 32:11; 33:1; 33:4; 36:11; 37:14; 37:37; 49:15; 94:15; 97:11; 107:7; 107:42; 111:1; 111:8; 112:2; 112:4; 119:137; 125:4

Proverbs

2:7; 2:21; 3:32; 8:9; 11:3; 11:6; 11:11; 12:6; 12:15; 14:9; 14:11; 14:12; 15:8; 15:19; 16:13; 16:17; 16:25; 20:11; 21:2; 21:8; 21:18; 21:29; 28:10; 29:10; 29:27; 29:27

Ecclesiastes

7:29

Isaiah

26:7

Jeremiah

26:14; 31:9; 34:15; 40:4; 40:5

Ezekiel

1:7; 1:7; 1:23; 1:23

Daniel

11:17

Micah

2:7; 3:9; 7:2; 7:4

H3477

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Strong's Number H3477 matches the Hebrew יָשָׁר (yāšār),
which occurs 119 times in 119 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 15:26–Job 4:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 - Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:6 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:23 - And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 - Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - (It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:8 - And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 - Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - And when he had gone away from there, he came across Jehonadab, the son of Rechab: and he said good-day to him, and said to him, Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours? And Jehonadab in answer said, It is; and Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he made him come up into his carriage.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:2 - Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:3 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:34 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:2 - And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:32 - He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:2 - And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:4 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34 - There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:20 - This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:2 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:13 - And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:1 - There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:7 - Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

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