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אֲשֶׁר

a.sherwhichHow to read Hebrew
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. Daniel 12:1אֲשֶׁ֤ר · the likes of which
    “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
  2. Daniel 12:6אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
  3. Daniel 12:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
  4. Hosea 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.
  5. Hosea 1:10אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which; אֲשֶׁר־ · where
    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  6. Hosea 2:12אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
  7. Hosea 2:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר · when
    I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
  8. Hosea 5:15אֲשֶֽׁר־
    Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
  9. Hosea 7:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · As
    As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
  10. Hosea 9:13כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · like
    I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
  11. Hosea 12:8אֲשֶׁר־ · that [is]
    And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
  12. Hosea 13:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר · to whom
    Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
  13. Hosea 14:3אֲשֶׁר־ · For
    Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
  14. Joel 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
  15. Joel 2:25אֲשֶׁר֙; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
  16. Joel 2:26אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
  17. Joel 2:32אֲשֶׁר־ · who; כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙ · as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
  18. Joel 3:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר · when
    “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
  19. Joel 3:2אֲשֶׁ֣ר · whom
    I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
  20. Joel 3:5אֲשֶׁר־ · For
    For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
  21. Joel 3:7אֲשֶׁר־ · to which
    Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
  22. Joel 3:19אֲשֶׁר־ · in whose
    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  23. Amos 1:1אֲשֶׁר־ · who; אֲשֶׁר֩ · what
    These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
  24. Amos 2:4אֲשֶׁר־ · in which
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
  25. Amos 2:9אֲשֶׁ֨ר · though
    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
  26. Amos 2:13כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · as
    Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
  27. Amos 3:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
  28. Amos 3:12כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · As
    This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
  29. Amos 4:1אֲשֶׁר֙
    Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
  30. Amos 4:7אֲשֶֽׁר־
    “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
  31. Amos 5:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · this
    Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
  32. Amos 5:14כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
  33. Amos 5:19כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · It will be like
    It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
  34. Amos 5:26אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
  35. Amos 6:10לַאֲשֶׁ֨ר · to one
    And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
  36. Amos 9:9כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · as
    “For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
  37. Amos 9:12אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    …that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
  38. Amos 9:15אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
  39. Obadiah 1:15כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · As
    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
  40. Obadiah 1:16כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֤ר · as
    For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
  41. Obadiah 1:20אֲשֶֽׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
  42. Jonah 1:5אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.