Hebrew verb · H3787
כָּשֵׁר
kasherkaw-share'
to succeed
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâshêr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3787is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3787
by implication, to be acceptable; also to succeed or prosper
The King James renders it: direct, be right, prosper.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kasher is rendered "to succeed". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 8:5“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Esther 8:5וְכָשֵׁ֤ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it is proper1
- to give success1
- will it succeed1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַכְשֵׁ֖ר1
- וְכָשֵׁ֤ר1
- יִכְשָׁר֙1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute1HVhaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Esther
one use
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- וְכָשֵׁ֤רvekhasherHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it is proper
Ecclesiastes
two uses
If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
- הַכְשֵׁ֖רhakhsheirverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: to give success
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- יִכְשָׁר֙yikhsharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will it succeed
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.