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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 11:12אֲשֶׁר־ · for which
    It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
  2. Deuteronomy 11:13אֲשֶׁ֧ר
    So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  3. Deuteronomy 11:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
  4. Deuteronomy 11:21אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    …so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
  5. Deuteronomy 11:22אֲשֶׁ֧ר
    For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
  6. Deuteronomy 11:24אֲשֶׁ֨ר · where
    Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
  7. Deuteronomy 11:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר · wherever; כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as
    No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
  8. Deuteronomy 11:27אֲשֶׁ֣ר · if; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    …a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
  9. Deuteronomy 11:28אֲשֶׁ֧ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
  10. Deuteronomy 11:29אֲשֶׁר־
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  11. Deuteronomy 11:31אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  12. Deuteronomy 11:32אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    …be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
  13. Deuteronomy 12:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁר֩; אֲשֶׁר־
    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
  14. Deuteronomy 12:2אֲשֶׁ֧ר · where; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  15. Deuteronomy 12:5אֲשֶׁר־
    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
  16. Deuteronomy 12:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · because
    There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
  17. Deuteronomy 12:8אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
  18. Deuteronomy 12:9אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
  19. Deuteronomy 12:10אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
  20. Deuteronomy 12:11אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
  21. Deuteronomy 12:12אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
  22. Deuteronomy 12:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;
  23. Deuteronomy 12:14אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  24. Deuteronomy 12:15אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
  25. Deuteronomy 12:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
  26. Deuteronomy 12:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
  27. Deuteronomy 12:20כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
  28. Deuteronomy 12:21אֲשֶׁ֨ר · where; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · as; כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר
    If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
  29. Deuteronomy 12:22כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · it as
    Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
  30. Deuteronomy 12:26אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
  31. Deuteronomy 12:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  32. Deuteronomy 12:29אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
  33. Deuteronomy 12:31אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which
    You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  34. Deuteronomy 12:32אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
  35. Deuteronomy 13:2אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
  36. Deuteronomy 13:5אֲשֶׁ֧ר · in which
    Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.