Strong’s
H3787Verb3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Esther 8:5וְכָשֵׁר
“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.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10הַכְשֵׁר
If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כָּשֵׁר vb. be advantageous, proper, suitable, succeed
Qal and the thing be proper in the view of the king
Hiph. an advantage for giving success in wisdom.
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.