כָּשֵׁר kâshêr — by implication, to be acceptable
Translated in the KJV as direct, be right, prosper.
a primitive root properly, to be straight or right; by implication, to be acceptable; also to succeed or prosper.
kâshêr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 2
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›