כָּשֵׁר
kasher · be right, proper
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3787 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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kasher (כָּשֵׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be right, proper”.
To be right, proper; to seem good; also to succeed.
How to say it
ka·sher
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To be correct, fitting.
- To turn out well, bear fruit.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- right ×2
- will prosper ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Esther 8:5
and she said, “If it seems good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and the matter is right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to turn back the letters, the plot of Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to make perish the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the iron is blunt, and he does not sharpen the edge, he must increase his strength; but the profit of getting it right is wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not let rest your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will be good.