יָשַׁר
ya.shar (H3474)
to smooth
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The Hebrew word "ya.shar" (H3474) means "to smooth." This verb suggests a physical action of making something even or flat, without any rough or irregular edges. Its semantic domain is classified as "Physical Action," indicating that it is primarily concerned with tangible, concrete activities. The word "ya.shar" is used 25 times in the Bible, which suggests that it is a relatively common term in Hebrew. Its range of usage is broad, encompassing various contexts such as smoothing stones (Exodus 20:25), making a path smooth (Isaiah 40:4), and even describing the smoothness of a river (Psalm 46:4). This versatility implies that the concept of smoothness is significant in Hebrew thought, perhaps representing ideas of order, harmony, or ease. The significance of "ya.shar" lies in its ability to convey a sense of refinement and completion. When something is smoothed, it is made more pleasant, accessible, or usable. This concept may be applied to various aspects of life, such as relationships, work, or even personal character. In this sense, "ya.shar" can be seen as a metaphor for the pursuit of excellence and the desire for a more refined and harmonious existence.
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Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.