Quick Definition
to bless
Strong's Definition
to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper
Derivation: or אָשֵׁר; a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.
TWOT Reference: 183
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָשַׁר (a.shar) — to bless. 1) to go straight, walk, go on, advance, make progress 1a)(Qal) to go straight on, make progress 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to go straight on, advance 1b2) to lead on (causative) 1b3) to set right, righten 1b4) to pronounce happy, call blessed 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be advanced, be led on 1c2) to be made happy, be blessed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אָשֻׁר
Act | verb qal, verb pi | ≈ בוא
Collocation: אשׁר בְּדֶרֶךְ
to follow the way (of), to act (with, as) literally: to go forward on a road; hence: = to behave in a certain way
Act | verb pi, verb pu'al | ≠ תעה
to lead, to guide literally: to cause to go forward; hence: = to provide authority and give guidance to other people
Wise | verb pi
Collocation: אשׁר לֵב בַּדֶּרֶךְ
to guide (one's heart) along the (right) road > to think right = literally: to cause one's heart to follow the (right) road; hence: = to think morally and ethically correctly
verb · אֹשֶׁר · אֶשֶׁר · אַשְׁרֵי · אָשֵׁר
Praise | Respect | verb pi, verb pu'al | ≈ הלל
to call blessed, to congratulate = to communicate to someone else that you consider him/her or someone else fortunate and blessed by God; ≈ accompanied by an attitude of respect
GEN 30:13 · JOB 29:11 · PSA 41:3 · PSA 72:17 · PRO 3:18 · PRO 31:28 · SNG 6:9 · MAL 3:12 · MAL 3:15
1 PSA 41:3 · PSA 41:3 MT-K יאשׁר | MT-Q וְאֻשַּׁר
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אָשַׁר] vb. go straight, go on, advance Qal go straight on in the way of understanding
Pi. intensive go straight on, advance
causative lead on
set right, righten
pronounce happy, call blessed
Pu. be led on
be made happy, blessed
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