8232 - shephar

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שְׁפַר
Transliteration: shephar
Definition (short): good
Definition (full): to be fair or seemly

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to shaphar
Definition: to be fair or seemly
NASB Translation: pleasing (1), seemed good (2).
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(Aramaic) corresponding to shaphar; to be beautiful -- be acceptable, please, + think good.

see HEBREW shaphar

KJV: I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
NASB: "It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.
KJV: Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
NASB: Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.'
KJV: It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
NASB: It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,