יָשָׁר
ya.shar
“upright”
Definition
straight (literally or figuratively)
from H3474 (יָשַׁר);
- straight, upright, correct, right 1a) straight, level 1b) right, pleasing, correct 1c) straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper 1d) uprightness, righteous, upright 1e) that which is upright (subst) Also means: ya.shar (*יָשָׁר *"upright" H3477I)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
יָשָׁר appears 107 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Who can count the dust of Jacobor number even a fourth of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous;let my end be like theirs!”
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit,but the blameless will inherit what is good.
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