יָשָׁר
yâshâr · yaw-shawr'
straight (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3474 (יָשַׁר);
straight (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), [phrase] pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest
The hand that works that works to consume, to destroy of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָשָׁר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
119 occurrences · 119 OT · 0 NT · 55 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that which was right19 · 23%
- of the upright9 · 11%
- that which is right7 · 9%
- and right6 · 7%
- the upright4 · 5%
- and upright4 · 5%
- is right4 · 5%
- for the upright4 · 5%
- right3 · 4%
- upright2 · 2%
- not that which was right2 · 2%
- and an upright2 · 2%
- of jasher2 · 2%
- are right2 · 2%
- of the righteous2 · 2%
- them right1 · 1%
- of him a right1 · 1%
- and meetest1 · 1%
- that only which was right1 · 1%
- that is right1 · 1%
- then it had pleased thee well1 · 1%
- were more upright1 · 1%
- thou hast been upright1 · 1%
- and the right1 · 1%
- whatsoever is right1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.