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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. Deuteronomy 1:39אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who
    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.
  2. Deuteronomy 1:41אֲשֶׁר־
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  3. Deuteronomy 1:44כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · you like
    Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
  4. Deuteronomy 1:46אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
  5. Deuteronomy 2:1כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · as
    Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
  6. Deuteronomy 2:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֧ר · just as; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)
  7. Deuteronomy 2:14אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־; כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · as
    The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
  8. Deuteronomy 2:16כַאֲשֶׁר־ · when
    Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
  9. Deuteronomy 2:22כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · just as; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · when
    …just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.
  10. Deuteronomy 2:25אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
  11. Deuteronomy 2:29כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · just as; אֲשֶֽׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    …just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  12. Deuteronomy 2:35אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
  13. Deuteronomy 2:36אֲשֶׁר֩; אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
  14. Deuteronomy 2:37אֲשֶׁר־ · place that
    But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
  15. Deuteronomy 3:2כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  16. Deuteronomy 3:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  17. Deuteronomy 3:6כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
  18. Deuteronomy 3:8אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
  19. Deuteronomy 3:12אֲשֶׁר־
    So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.
  20. Deuteronomy 3:19אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
  21. Deuteronomy 3:20אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”
  22. Deuteronomy 3:21אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
  23. Deuteronomy 3:24אֲשֶׁ֤ר · For; אֲשֶׁר־
    “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
  24. Deuteronomy 3:25אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
  25. Deuteronomy 3:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”
  26. Deuteronomy 4:1אֲשֶׁ֧ר; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  27. Deuteronomy 4:2אֲשֶׁ֤ר · what; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
  28. Deuteronomy 4:3אֲשֶׁר־ · what; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
  29. Deuteronomy 4:5כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · just as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
  30. Deuteronomy 4:6אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
  31. Deuteronomy 4:7אֲשֶׁר־ · to
    For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
  32. Deuteronomy 4:8אֲשֶׁר־ · to; אֲשֶׁ֧ר
    And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?