Strong's #3477: yashar (pronounced yaw-shawr')
from 3474; straight (literally or figuratively):--convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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yâshâr
1) 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 (substantive)
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H3474
Usage:
This word is used 119 times:
Job 8:6: "If thou wast pure and upright; surely now he would awake"
Job 17:8: " Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against"
Job 23:7: "There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge."
Job 33:27: "and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, me not;"
Psalms 7:10: "is of God, which saveth the upright in heart."
Psalms 11:2: "the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart."
Psalms 11:7: "righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright."
Psalms 19:8: "The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD"
Psalms 25:8: "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way."
Psalms 32:11: "ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright"
Psalms 33:1: "O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright."
Psalms 33:4: "For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth."
Psalms 36:10: "thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart."
Psalms 37:14: "the poor and to slay such as be of upright conversation."
Psalms 37:37: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man"
Psalms 49:14: "in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion and their beauty shall consume"
Psalms 64:10: "in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart"
Psalms 92:15: "To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness"
Psalms 94:15: "unto righteousness: and all the upright shall follow"
Psalms 97:11: "is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Psalms 107:7: "And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation."
Psalms 107:42: " The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth."
Psalms 111:1: "with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation."
Psalms 111:8: "and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness."
Psalms 112:2: "mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed."
Psalms 112:4: " Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."
Psalms 119:137: "Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments."
Psalms 125:4: "Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts."
Psalms 140:13: "the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell"
Proverbs 2:7: "He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly."
Proverbs 2:21: "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain"
Proverbs 3:32: "to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous."
Proverbs 8:9: "They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge."
Proverbs 11:3: "The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy"
Proverbs 11:6: "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness."
Proverbs 11:11: "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked."
Proverbs 12:6: "are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver"
Proverbs 12:15: "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."
Proverbs 14:9: "make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor."
Proverbs 14:11: "of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish."
Proverbs 14:12: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways"
Proverbs 15:8: "is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight."
Proverbs 15:19: "man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain."
Proverbs 16:13: "of kings; and they love him that speaketh right."
Proverbs 16:17: "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth"
Proverbs 16:25: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways"
Proverbs 20:11: "his work be pure, it be right."
Proverbs 21:2: "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth"
Proverbs 21:8: "and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right."
Proverbs 21:18: "for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright."
