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:
Proverbs 21:29: "man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth"
Proverbs 28:10: " Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit:"
Proverbs 29:10: "The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul."
Proverbs 29:27: "man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination"
Ecclesiastes 7:29: "hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
Isaiah 26:7: "The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just."
Jeremiah 26:14: "do with me as seemeth good and meet"
Jeremiah 31:9: "by the rivers in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for"
Jeremiah 34:15: "turned, and had done right in my sight, liberty every man"
Jeremiah 40:4: "behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient"
Jeremiah 40:5: "go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard"
Ezekiel 1:7: "And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's"
Ezekiel 1:23: "And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other:"
Daniel 11:17: "with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter"
Hosea 14:9: "them? for of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall"
Micah 2:7: "do good to him that walketh uprightly?"
Micah 3:9: "judgment, and pervert all equity."
Micah 7:2: "out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: lie in wait for blood;"
Micah 7:4: "The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation"
