Strong's Concordance H3474

Original Word: יָשַׁר
Transliteration: yâshar
Phonetic Spelling: yaw-shar'
a primitive root; to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous; direct, fit, seem good (meet), please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).

Usages throughout the bible

Numbers 23:27 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please H3474 God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

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 wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. H3474

Judges 14:7 - And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased H3474 Samson well. H3474

1 Samuel 6:12 - And the kine took the straight H3474 way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

1 Samuel 18:20 - And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased H3474 him.

1 Samuel 18:26 - And when his servants told David these words, it pleased H3474 David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

2 Samuel 17:4 - And the saying pleased H3474 Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

1 Kings 6:35 - And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted H3474 upon the carved work.

1 Kings 9:12 - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased H3474 him not.

1 Chronicles 13:4 - And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right H3474 in the eyes of all the people.

2 Chronicles 30:4 - And the thing pleased H3474 the king and all the congregation.

2 Chronicles 32:30 - This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight H3474 down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Job 37:3 - He directeth H3474 it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Psalms 5:8 - Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight H3474 before my face.

Psalms 119:128 - Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; H3474 and I hate every false way.

Proverbs 3:6 - In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct H3474 thy paths.

Proverbs 4:25 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight H3474 before thee.

Proverbs 9:15 - To call passengers who go right H3474 on their ways:

Proverbs 11:5 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct H3474 his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 15:21 - Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. H3474

Isaiah 40:3 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight H3474 in the desert a highway for our God.

Isaiah 45:2 - I will go before thee, and make H3474 the crooked places straight: H3474 H3474 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 H3474 all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 18:4 - And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good H3474 to the potter to make it.

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 H3474 unto me.

Habakkuk 2:4 - Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright H3474 in him: but the just shall live by his faith.