Strong's #3474: yashar (pronounced 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).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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yâshar

1) to be right, be straight, be level, be upright, be just, be lawful, be smooth

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to go straight

1a2) to be pleasing, be agreeable, be right (figuratively)

1a3) to be straightforward, be upright

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to make right, make smooth, make straight

1b2) to lead, direct, lead straight along

1b3) to esteem right, approve

1c) (Pual) to be made level, be laid smoothly out

1d) (Hiphil) to make straight, look straight

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 26 times:

 

Numbers 23:27: "another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence."
Judges 14:3: "his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well."
Judges 14:7: "And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well."
1 Samuel 6:12: "And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the"
1 Samuel 18:20: "and they told Saul, and the thing pleased"
1 Samuel 18:26: "these words, it pleased David well to be the king's"
2 Samuel 17:4: "And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel."
1 Kings 6:35: "flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work."
1 Kings 9:12: "the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not."
1 Chronicles 13:4: "so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people."
2 Chronicles 30:4: "And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation."
2 Chronicles 32:30: "the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city"
Job 37:3: " He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth."
Psalms 5:8: "because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face."
Psalms 119:128: "Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false"
Proverbs 3:6: "thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
Proverbs 4:25: "look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before"
Proverbs 9:15: "To call passengers who go right on their ways:"
Proverbs 11:5: "The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness."
Proverbs 15:21: "but a man of understanding walketh uprightly."
Isaiah 40:3: "Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
Isaiah 45:2: "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass,"
Isaiah 45:13: "I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build"
Jeremiah 18:4: "as seemed good to the potter to make"
Jeremiah 27:5: "arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet"
Habakkuk 2:4: "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."