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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. Zechariah 1:12אֲשֶׁ֣ר · with which
    Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
  2. Zechariah 1:15אֲשֶׁ֤ר · For
    …but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
  3. Zechariah 1:19אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
  4. Zechariah 1:21אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    “What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
  5. Zechariah 3:9אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
  6. Zechariah 4:1אֲשֶׁר־
    Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.
  7. Zechariah 4:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.
  8. Zechariah 4:12אֲשֶׁר֙
    And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”
  9. Zechariah 6:6אֲשֶׁר־ · The one
    The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
  10. Zechariah 6:10אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    “Take an offering from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
  11. Zechariah 7:3אֲשֶׁר֙; כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    …by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
  12. Zechariah 7:7אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
  13. Zechariah 7:12אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
  14. Zechariah 7:13כַאֲשֶׁר־ · just as
    And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
  15. Zechariah 7:14אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
  16. Zechariah 8:9אֲ֠שֶׁר · spoken
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
  17. Zechariah 8:13כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · As
    As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
  18. Zechariah 8:14כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · Just as
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,
  19. Zechariah 8:16אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
  20. Zechariah 8:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
  21. Zechariah 8:20אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
  22. Zechariah 8:23אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
  23. Zechariah 10:6כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as though
    I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
  24. Zechariah 11:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
  25. Zechariah 11:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whose
    …whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
  26. Zechariah 11:10אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
  27. Zechariah 11:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · at which
    And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
  28. Zechariah 12:10אֲשֶׁר־ · the One
    Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  29. Zechariah 13:6אֲשֶׁ֥ר · These are
    If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
  30. Zechariah 14:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.
  31. Zechariah 14:5כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · as
    You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.
  32. Zechariah 14:12אֲשֶׁ֨ר · with which; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
  33. Zechariah 14:15אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
  34. Zechariah 14:17אֲשֶׁ֨ר · any
    And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
  35. Zechariah 14:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר · with which; אֲשֶׁר֙ · who
    And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
  36. Zechariah 14:19אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
  37. Malachi 1:4אֲשֶׁר־ · with whom
    Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
  38. Malachi 2:9אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
  39. Malachi 2:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
  40. Malachi 2:12אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.
  41. Malachi 2:14אֲשֶׁ֤ר · against whom
    Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
  42. Malachi 3:1אֲשֶׁר־ · whom; אֲשֶׁר־ · in whom
    “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
  43. Malachi 3:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · when; כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙ · as
    “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  44. Malachi 3:18לַאֲשֶׁ֖ר · and those who
    So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
  45. Malachi 4:1אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”