Was right in his eyes/ to be pleasing
Finds favor in his eyes. Or: seems right in his eyes.
("And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, and they did not please him" - 1 Kings 9:12; and likewise: "Then his father and mother said to him, 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?' But Samson said to his father, 'Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes'" - Judges 14:3; and likewise: "Or is the young woman right in your eyes? / Who? Hannah, Tzipporah, or Leah?" - H.N. Bialik, "For the Daughters of Sheppiah"; and likewise: "And the holy Baal Shem Tov said: If the decrees of the angel do not seem right in his eyes, behold, I remove him from his craft" - Agnon, Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, Kingdom of Priests)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יָשַׁר בְּעֵינָיו
Definition (Hebrew)
מוֹצֵא חֵן בְּעֵינָיו. אוֹ: נִרְאֶה צוֹדֵק בְּעֵינָיו.
("וַיֵּצֵא חִירָם מִצֹּר לִרְאוֹת אֶת הֶעָרִים אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לוֹ שְׁלֹמֹה, וְלֹא יָשְׁרוּ בְּעֵינָיו"- מְלָכִים א ט יב, וְכֵן:"וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ, הַאֵין בִּבְנוֹת אַחֶיךָ וּבְכָל עַמִּי אִשָּׁה כִּי אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ לָקַחַת אִשָּׁה מִפְּלִשְׁתִּים הָעֲרֵלִים? וַיֹּאמֶר שִׁמְשׁוֹן אֶל אָבִיו, אוֹתָהּ קַח לִי כִּי הִיא יָשְׁרָה בְעֵינָי"- שׁוֹפְטִים יָד ג (הוֹרֵי שִׁמְשׁוֹן לְשִׁמְשׁוֹן), וְכֵן:"אוֹ יְשָׁרָה בְּעֵינֶיךָ הַנַּעֲרָה?/ מִי? חַנָּה, צִפּוֹרָה, אוֹ לֵאָה?"- ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק/ לְבָנוֹת שֶׁפִּיָּה, וְכֵן:"וְאָמַר הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט הַקָּדוֹשׁ אִם לֹא יַשְּׁרוּ בְּעֵינֵי גְּזֵרוֹת הַמַּלְאָךְ הִנְנִי מַעֲבִירוֹ מֵאֻמָּנוּתוֹ"- עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים)