אֲשֶׁר

hebrewOld TestamentPronoun5,502 occurrences39 books4,440 verses

Definition

a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Traditional renderings: × after, × alike, as (soon as), because, × every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), × if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), × though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֲשֶׁר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,502 total
  1. Ezekiel 36:36אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
  2. Ezekiel 37:7כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, there was suddenly a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
  3. Ezekiel 37:10כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.
  4. Ezekiel 37:18וְכַֽאֲשֶׁר֙ · When
    When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’
  5. Ezekiel 37:19אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’
  6. Ezekiel 37:20אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־ · on which
    When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people,
  7. Ezekiel 37:21אֲשֶׁ֣ר · to which
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
  8. Ezekiel 37:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר · by which
    They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  9. Ezekiel 37:25אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · where
    They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
  10. Ezekiel 38:8אֲשֶׁר־ · which
    After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
  11. Ezekiel 38:17אֲשֶׁר־ · of whom
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
  12. Ezekiel 38:20אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
  13. Ezekiel 38:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
  14. Ezekiel 39:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
  15. Ezekiel 39:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר · of which
    Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken.
  16. Ezekiel 39:17אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
  17. Ezekiel 39:19אֲשֶׁר־
    At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.
  18. Ezekiel 39:21אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
  19. Ezekiel 39:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
  20. Ezekiel 39:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.
  21. Ezekiel 39:29אֲשֶׁ֨ר · for
    And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
  22. Ezekiel 40:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
  23. Ezekiel 40:4אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    “Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
  24. Ezekiel 40:6אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
  25. Ezekiel 40:20אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
  26. Ezekiel 40:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Its windows, portico, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.
  27. Ezekiel 40:40אֲשֶׁר֙
    Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.
  28. Ezekiel 40:42אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
  29. Ezekiel 40:44אֲשֶׁ֗ר
    Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two chambers, one beside the north gate and facing south, and another beside the south gate and facing north.
  30. Ezekiel 40:45אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that
    Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
  31. Ezekiel 40:46אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that
    …and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
  32. Ezekiel 40:49אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.
  33. Ezekiel 41:6אֲשֶׁר־
    The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
  34. Ezekiel 41:9אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־; וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר · and; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
  35. Ezekiel 41:12אֲשֶׁר֩ · that
    Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
  36. Ezekiel 41:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
  37. Ezekiel 41:22אֲשֶׁ֖ר · that
    There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
  38. Ezekiel 41:25כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · like those
    Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.
  39. Ezekiel 42:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר; וַאֲשֶֽׁר־
    Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
  40. Ezekiel 42:3אֲשֶׁר֙ · that; אֲשֶׁ֖ר · that
    Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
  41. Ezekiel 42:7אֲשֶׁר־ · [was]
    An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
  42. Ezekiel 42:8אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
  43. Ezekiel 42:11אֲשֶׁר֙ · that were
    …with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.