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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. Jonah 1:8בַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · is to blame
    “Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”
  2. Jonah 1:9אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    “I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
  3. Jonah 1:14כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
  4. Jonah 2:9אֲשֶׁ֥ר · what
    But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
  5. Jonah 3:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
  6. Jonah 3:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
  7. Jonah 3:10אֲשֶׁר־
    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
  8. Jonah 4:5אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
  9. Jonah 4:10אֲשֶׁ֛ר · which
    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
  10. Jonah 4:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  11. Micah 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
  12. Micah 2:3אֲ֠שֶׁר · which
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
  13. Micah 3:3וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר; כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · like [flesh]
    You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
  14. Micah 3:4כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · because of
    Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
  15. Micah 3:5וַאֲשֶׁר֙
    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
  16. Micah 4:6וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר · even those whom
    “On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
  17. Micah 5:7אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which
    Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
  18. Micah 5:8אֲשֶׁ֧ר · which
    Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
  19. Micah 5:15אֲשֶׁ֖ר · that
    I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
  20. Micah 6:1אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
  21. Micah 6:12אֲשֶׁ֤ר · For
    For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
  22. Micah 6:14וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר · and what
    You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
  23. Micah 7:9אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
  24. Micah 7:20אֲשֶׁר־ · as
    You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
  25. Nahum 2:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר · where
    Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
  26. Nahum 3:8אֲשֶׁר־ · whose
    Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
  27. Habakkuk 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
  28. Habakkuk 2:5אֲשֶׁר֩ · He
    …and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
  29. Habakkuk 3:16אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  30. Zephaniah 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:
  31. Zephaniah 1:6וַאֲשֶׁ֛ר
    …and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
  32. Zephaniah 2:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
  33. Zephaniah 2:8אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
  34. Zephaniah 3:7אֲשֶׁר־ · for which
    I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.
  35. Zephaniah 3:11אֲשֶׁ֥ר · by which
    On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
  36. Haggai 1:9אֲשֶׁר־
    You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  37. Haggai 1:11אֲשֶׁ֥ר · and on whatever
    I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
  38. Haggai 1:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · because
    Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.
  39. Haggai 2:3אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’
  40. Haggai 2:5אֲשֶׁר־
    This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt. And My Spirit remains among you; do not be afraid.”
  41. Haggai 2:14וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר · whatever
    Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
  42. Haggai 2:18אֲשֶׁר־
    Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
  43. Zechariah 1:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר · to whom
    Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
  44. Zechariah 1:6אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which; כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · Just as
    But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
  45. Zechariah 1:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
  46. Zechariah 1:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר · are the ones
    Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”