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יָשָׁר adjective straight, right; — ׳ י 1Sam 29:6 + 70 t.; construct יְשַׁר Prov 29:27 feminine יְשָׁרָה Ezek 1:7 + 4 t.; plural יְשָׁרִים Num 23:10 + 31 t.; construct יִשְׁרֵי Ps 7:11 + 8 t.; feminine יְשָׁרוֺת Ezek 1:23 (strike out Co); —
1.
straight, level, of a way Isa 26:7; Jer 31:9; Ps 107:7; Ezra 8:21 foot Ezek 1:7 wings Ezek 1:23 (? see above)
2.
right, pleasing:
a.
to God, הַיָּשָׁר בעיני
that which is right, pleasing in the eyes of, agreeable to (either construct before
׳
י, or with suffixes referring to him), especially in Deuteronomic writers, Exod 15:26 (
R
), Deut
12:25;
Deut 13:19; Deut 21:9; 1Kgs 11:33; 1Kgs 11:38; 1Kgs 14:8; 1Kgs 15:5; 1Kgs 15:11; 1Kgs 22:43
= 2Chr 20:32
, 2Kgs
10:30;
2Kgs 12:3; 2Kgs 14:3; 2Kgs 15:3; 2Kgs 15:34; 2Kgs 16:2; 2Kgs 18:3; 2Kgs 22:3 = 2Chr 24:2;
2Chr 25:2;
2Chr 26:4;
2Chr 27:2;
2Chr 28:1;
2Chr 29:2;
2Chr 34:2;
Jer 34:15
׳
הישׁר והטוב בעיני י
Deut 6:18
׳
הטוב והישׁר בעיני י
Deut 12:28;
2Chr 14:1
׳
הטוב והישׁר והאמת לפני י
2Chr 31:20
.
b.
to man, (ה)ישׁר בעיני
Deut 12:8; Judg 17:6; Judg 21:25;
2Sam 19:7;
Jer 40:5; Prov 12:15
; Prov 21:2
(ה)טוב ו(ה)ישׁר בעיני
Josh 9:25 (
D
), Jer
26:14; Jer
40:4
יֵשׁ דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר לִפְנֵיאִֿישׁ
Prov 14:12
there is a way which is pleasing before a man = Prov 16:25.
3.
straightforward, just, upright:
a.
of God, צַדִּיק וְיָשָׁר הוא
Deut 32:4
(song); ׳
טוב וישׁר י
Ps 25:8
׳
ישׁר י
Ps 92:16
his ways Hos
14:10 his משׁפטים
Neh 9:13; Ps 119:137
פִּקּוּדִים
Ps 19:9
דָּבָר
Ps 33:4 the
words of divine wisdom
Prov 8:9.
b.
of man, God made him upright
Eccl 7:29 but
יָשָׁר בָּאָדָם אָ֑יִן
Mic 7:2
an upright man among men there is none and yet Job is תָּם וְיָשָׁר
Job 1:1 (see
Da), Job 1:8; Job 2:3, compare Ps 37:37
זַךְ וישׁר
Job 8:6 so earlier
of David as an uprightman 1Sam 29:6 of man's doings || זַךְ
Prov 20:11
, compare
Prov 21:8 of his way of life || טובה
1Sam 12:23
יְשַׁרדֶּֿרֶךְ
Prov 29:27
יִשְׁרֵיּדֶֿרֶךְ
Ps 37:14 of
his heart, mind, and will, יִשְׁרֵי לֵבָב
upright of heart
2Chr 29:34
יִשְׁרֵילֵֿב
Ps 7:11; Ps 11:2; Ps 32:11;
Ps 36:11;
Ps 64:11;
Ps 94:15;
Ps 97:11
יְשָׁרִים בְּלִבּוֺתָם
Ps 125:4.
c. as a noun, (1) with reference to things, יָשָׁר הֶעֱוֵיתִי
the right I have perverted
Job 33:27
הַיְשָׁרָה יְעַקֵּ֑שׁוּ
Mic 3:9
pervert the right (literally twist that which is
straight); דֹּבֵר יְשָׁרִים
speaketh right things
Prov 16:13
, compare 2Kgs 10:15. (2) more commonly of men, in singular (ה)יָשָׁר
Mic 2:7; Mic 7:4; 2Kgs 10:3;
Prov 21:29
; Job 23:7
collective, Ps
11:7 also in סֵפֶר
הַיָּשָׁר
book of the upright
Josh 10:13;
2Sam 1:18
(compare 1Kgs 8:53
ᵐ5
; DrIntr. 182), a collection of ancient national
poetry; in plural יְשָׁרִים
the upright, of pious Israel Num 23:10 (song
E
); elsewhere of the upright among the people of God as distinguished from the wicked, in Wisdom
Literature. Job 4:7
; Job 17:8
; Prov 2:7;
Prov 2:21;
Prov 3:32;
Prov 11:3;
Prov 11:6;
Prov 11:11
; Prov 12:6
; Prov 14:9
; Prov
14:11;
Prov 15:8; Prov 15:19; Prov 16:17; Prov 21:18; Prov 28:10; Prov 29:10, in late Ps 33:1; Ps 49:15;
Ps 107:42
; Ps 111:1
; Ps 112:2
; Ps 112:4
; Ps
140:14 and Dan 11:17.
4. abstract, uprightness, בֶּאֱמֶת וְיָשָׁר
Ps 111:8 (
Thes), but read rather ישֶׁר with Hi
Ri
Bae, after
ᵐ5
ᵑ6
ᵑ7
Jerome.