# H3474 יָשַׁר

יָשַׁר (yâshar), Strong’s H3474: to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous KJV: direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem…

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

KJV: direct, fit, seem good (meet), [phrase] please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on)…

Occurs 26 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָשַׁר vb. be smooth, straight, right
- Qal
- 1 go straight
- 2 fig., be pleasing, agreeable, right
- 3 in ethical sense, straightforward, upright
- Pi.
- 1 make smooth, straight
- 2 lead straight along, direct
- 3 esteem right, approve
- Pu. gold made level, laid smoothly out, upon the graven work
- Hiph. let thine eyelids look straight before thee

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 23:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=27) — Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them…
- [Judges 14:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=3) — Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my…
- [Judges 14:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=7) — He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
- [1 Samuel 6:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=12) — The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t…
- [1 Samuel 18:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=20) — Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
- [1 Samuel 18:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=26) — When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
- [2 Samuel 17:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/17?v=4) — The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
- [1 Kings 6:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/6?v=35) — He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
- [1 Kings 9:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=12) — Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
- [Isaiah 40:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=3) — The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for…