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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. Numbers 4:26אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    …the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.
  2. Numbers 4:37אֲשֶׁ֨ר · them
    These were counted from the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD through Moses.
  3. Numbers 4:41אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whom
    These were counted from the Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.
  4. Numbers 4:45אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whom
    These were counted from the Merarite clans, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the LORD’s command through Moses.
  5. Numbers 4:46אֲשֶׁר֩
    So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites
  6. Numbers 4:49אֲשֶׁר־ · as
    At the LORD’s command through Moses they were numbered, and each one was assigned his work and burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  7. Numbers 5:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · where
    You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
  8. Numbers 5:4כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · just as
    So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
  9. Numbers 5:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר; לַאֲשֶׁ֖ר · to the one
    …and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
  10. Numbers 5:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר · by which
    But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.
  11. Numbers 5:9אֲשֶׁר־
    Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
  12. Numbers 5:10אֲשֶׁר־ · [but] whatever
    Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”
  13. Numbers 5:17אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
  14. Numbers 5:29אֲשֶׁ֨ר · when
    This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
  15. Numbers 5:30אֲשֶׁ֨ר · when
    …or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.
  16. Numbers 6:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
  17. Numbers 6:5אֲשֶׁר־ · of
    For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
  18. Numbers 6:11מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר · because
    And the priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again.
  19. Numbers 6:18אֲשֶׁר־
    Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.
  20. Numbers 6:21אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; אֲשֶׁר־ · whatever else; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · whatever
    This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”
  21. Numbers 7:89אֲשֶׁר֙
    When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.
  22. Numbers 8:3כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר · just as
    And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  23. Numbers 8:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.
  24. Numbers 8:20אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    So Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel did with the Levites everything that the LORD had commanded Moses they should do.
  25. Numbers 8:22כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · just as
    After that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  26. Numbers 8:24אֲשֶׁ֣ר · applies
    “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
  27. Numbers 9:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר · just as
    …and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  28. Numbers 9:6אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who
    But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
  29. Numbers 9:13אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
  30. Numbers 9:17אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
  31. Numbers 9:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
  32. Numbers 9:20אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
  33. Numbers 9:21אֲשֶׁר־
    Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
  34. Numbers 10:29אֲשֶׁ֣ר · of which
    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
  35. Numbers 10:32אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whatever
    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
  36. Numbers 11:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
  37. Numbers 11:5אֲשֶׁר־
    We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
  38. Numbers 11:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
  39. Numbers 11:16אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
  40. Numbers 11:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that [is]
    And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
  41. Numbers 11:20אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    …but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
  42. Numbers 11:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
  43. Numbers 11:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
  44. Numbers 12:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.