Genesis 46:28
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
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2 Thessalonians 3:5
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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יָשַׁר
yâshar · yaw-shar'
3 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Strong's KJV usage: direct, fit, seem good (meet), please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 3:6Strong's last: Isaiah 45:13
Open full H3474 profile →κατευθύνω
kateuthýnō · kat-yoo-thoo'-no
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to straighten fully, i.e. (figuratively) direct
Strong's KJV usage: :--guide, direct.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 3:11Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:5
Open full G2720 profile →יָרָה
yârâh · yaw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form84 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
Strong's KJV usage: ( ) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Strong's first: Genesis 46:28Strong's last: Genesis 46:28
Open full H3384 profile →כּוּן
kûwn · koon
1 times translated as this KJV form219 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
Strong's KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, × very deed.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 10:23Strong's last: Jeremiah 10:23
Open full H3559 profile →כָּשֵׁר
kâshêr · kaw-share'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
by implication, to be acceptable; also to succeed or prosper
Strong's KJV usage: direct, be right, prosper.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 10:10Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:10
Open full H3787 profile →נָתַן
nâthan · naw-than'
1 times translated as this KJV form2,007 total Strong's occurrences
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:8Strong's last: Isaiah 61:8
Open full H5414 profile →עָרַךְ
ʻârak · aw-rak'
1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 5:3Strong's last: Psalms 5:3
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H3384
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
H6186
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
H3474
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
H3474
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
H3787
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.
H3474
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
H5414
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
H3559
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
G2720
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
G2720
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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direct
DIRECT, adjective [Latin , to make straight. See Right.]
1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as a direct ray of light.
2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct
3. In the line of father and sons; opposed to collateral; as a descendant in the direct line.
4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course; not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object; a direct course; a direct way.
5. Open; not ambiguous or doubtful.
6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he said this in direct words; he made a direct acknowledgment.
7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it; as the fifth, major third and octave.
DIRECT tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.
DIRECT, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct the eye; to direct a course or flight.
2. To point; to show the right road or course; as, he directed me to the left hand road.
3. To regulate; to guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed in a particular manner; as, to direct the affairs of a nation.
Wisdom is profitable to direct Ecclesiastes 10:10.
4. To prescribe a course; to mark out a way. Job 37:3.
5. To order; to instruct; to point out a course of proceeding, with authority; to command. But direct is a softer term than command.
DIRECT, noun In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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