To succeed
כָּשֵׁרStrong’s H3787kasher (ka-sher)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kasher is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is proper”, “give success” and “it succeed”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“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:”
Meaning
- To succeed, please, be suitable, be proper, be advantageous, be right and proper to(Qal) to please, be proper · (Hiphil) to give success
How it's translated
- and it is proper 1
- to give success 1
- will it succeed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Esther 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 10:10If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6In 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.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּשֵׁר kasher · to succeed
1) to succeed, please, be suitable, be proper, be advantageous, be right and proper to 1a) (Qal) to please, be proper 1b) (Hiphil) to give success
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.