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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 4:9אֲשֶׁר־
    Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:10אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · so that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:13אֲשֶׁ֨ר · which
    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
  4. Deuteronomy 4:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  5. Deuteronomy 4:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that [is]; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
  6. Deuteronomy 4:18אֲשֶׁר־ · that [is]
    …or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
  7. Deuteronomy 4:19אֲשֶׁ֨ר · what
    When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
  8. Deuteronomy 4:21אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  9. Deuteronomy 4:23אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
  10. Deuteronomy 4:26אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  11. Deuteronomy 4:27אֲשֶׁ֨ר · to which
    Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  12. Deuteronomy 4:28אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which
    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
  13. Deuteronomy 4:31אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
  14. Deuteronomy 4:32אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁר֩ · that
    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
  15. Deuteronomy 4:33כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · as
    Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
  16. Deuteronomy 4:34אֲשֶׁר־
    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
  17. Deuteronomy 4:40אֲשֶׁ֨ר · which; אֲשֶׁר֙ · so that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  18. Deuteronomy 4:42אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
  19. Deuteronomy 4:44אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
  20. Deuteronomy 4:45אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
  21. Deuteronomy 4:46אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
  22. Deuteronomy 4:47אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—
  23. Deuteronomy 4:48אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
  24. Deuteronomy 5:1אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
  25. Deuteronomy 5:6אֲשֶׁ֧ר · who
    “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  26. Deuteronomy 5:8אֲשֶׁ֤֣ר; וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר֩; וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
  27. Deuteronomy 5:11אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
  28. Deuteronomy 5:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
  29. Deuteronomy 5:14אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
  30. Deuteronomy 5:16כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  31. Deuteronomy 5:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  32. Deuteronomy 5:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
  33. Deuteronomy 5:27אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
  34. Deuteronomy 5:28אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
  35. Deuteronomy 5:31אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
  36. Deuteronomy 5:32כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.