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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 16:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
  2. Deuteronomy 16:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    …and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
  4. Deuteronomy 17:2אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  5. Deuteronomy 17:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    …and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
  6. Deuteronomy 17:5אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    …you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
  7. Deuteronomy 17:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
  8. Deuteronomy 17:9אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
  9. Deuteronomy 17:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֖ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,
  10. Deuteronomy 17:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    …according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
  11. Deuteronomy 17:12אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  12. Deuteronomy 17:14אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
  13. Deuteronomy 17:15אֲשֶׁ֥ר · whom; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    …you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
  14. Deuteronomy 18:2כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as
    Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
  15. Deuteronomy 18:6אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
  16. Deuteronomy 18:9אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
  17. Deuteronomy 18:14אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which
    Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
  18. Deuteronomy 18:16אֲשֶׁר־
    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
  19. Deuteronomy 18:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
  20. Deuteronomy 18:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
  21. Deuteronomy 18:19אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
  22. Deuteronomy 18:20אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר · [or]
    But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
  23. Deuteronomy 18:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
  24. Deuteronomy 18:22אֲשֶׁר֩ · When; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
  25. Deuteronomy 19:1אֲשֶׁר֙
    When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
  26. Deuteronomy 19:2אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    …then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  27. Deuteronomy 19:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
  28. Deuteronomy 19:4אֲשֶׁר־ · who; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
  29. Deuteronomy 19:5וַאֲשֶׁר֩ · If
    If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
  30. Deuteronomy 19:8כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
  31. Deuteronomy 19:9אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
  32. Deuteronomy 19:10אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
  33. Deuteronomy 19:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  34. Deuteronomy 19:15אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.