# H833 אָשַׁר

אָשַׁר (ʼâshar), Strong’s H833: to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper KJV: (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go…

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*ʼâshar* — to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper

KJV: (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אָשַׁר] vb. go straight, go on, advance
- Qal go straight on in the way of understanding
- Pi.
- 1 intensive go straight on, advance
- 2 causative lead on
- 3 set right, righten
- 4 pronounce happy, call blessed
- Pu.
- 1 be led on
- 2 be made happy, blessed

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=13) — Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
- [Isaiah 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=17) — Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
- [Isaiah 3:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=12) — As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to…
- [Isaiah 9:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=15) — For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
- [Malachi 3:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/3?v=12) — “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- [Malachi 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/malachi/3?v=15) — Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
- [Psalms 41:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/41?v=3) — The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the…
- [Psalms 72:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=17) — His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him…
- [Proverbs 3:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/3?v=18) — She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
- [Proverbs 4:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/4?v=14) — Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.