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. Numbers 34:29אֲשֶׁ֖ר · are the ones whom
    These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
  2. Numbers 35:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
  3. Numbers 35:6אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
  4. Numbers 35:7אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
  5. Numbers 35:8אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
  6. Numbers 35:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
  7. Numbers 35:17אֲשֶׁר־
    Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
  8. Numbers 35:18אֲשֶׁר־
    If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
  9. Numbers 35:23אֲשֶׁר־
    …or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
  10. Numbers 35:25אֲשֶׁר־ · to which; אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  11. Numbers 35:26אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
  12. Numbers 35:31אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
  13. Numbers 35:33אֲשֶׁ֤ר · where; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
  14. Numbers 35:34אֲשֶׁ֤ר · where; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · and where
    Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
  15. Numbers 36:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · into which
    But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
  16. Numbers 36:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר · into which
    And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
  17. Numbers 36:6אֲשֶׁר־ · is what
    This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
  18. Numbers 36:10כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · as
    So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  19. Numbers 36:13אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  20. Deuteronomy 1:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
  21. Deuteronomy 1:3אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  22. Deuteronomy 1:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who; אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
  23. Deuteronomy 1:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
  24. Deuteronomy 1:11כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as
    May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
  25. Deuteronomy 1:14אֲשֶׁר־ · What
    And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
  26. Deuteronomy 1:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
  27. Deuteronomy 1:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.
  28. Deuteronomy 1:19אֲשֶׁ֣ר · And just as; כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
  29. Deuteronomy 1:20אֲשֶׁר־ · which
    I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  30. Deuteronomy 1:21כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · it as
    See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
  31. Deuteronomy 1:22אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  32. Deuteronomy 1:25אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  33. Deuteronomy 1:30אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
  34. Deuteronomy 1:31אֲשֶׁ֣ר · where; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · as; כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · by which
    …and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
  35. Deuteronomy 1:33אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
  36. Deuteronomy 1:35אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  37. Deuteronomy 1:36אֲשֶׁ֥ר · on which; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
  38. Deuteronomy 1:39אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.