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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 19:17אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    …both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
  2. Deuteronomy 19:19כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    …you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  3. Deuteronomy 20:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
  4. Deuteronomy 20:6אֲשֶׁר־
    Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
  5. Deuteronomy 20:7אֲשֶׁר־
    Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
  6. Deuteronomy 20:14אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
  7. Deuteronomy 20:15אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
  8. Deuteronomy 20:16אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
  9. Deuteronomy 20:17כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
  10. Deuteronomy 20:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
  11. Deuteronomy 20:20אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  12. Deuteronomy 21:1אֲשֶׁר֩ · that
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  13. Deuteronomy 21:2אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    …your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
  14. Deuteronomy 21:3אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
  15. Deuteronomy 21:4אֲשֶׁ֛ר · that
    …bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
  16. Deuteronomy 21:8אֲשֶׁר־ · whom
    Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
  17. Deuteronomy 21:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
  18. Deuteronomy 21:16אֲשֶׁר־ · that man
    …when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
  19. Deuteronomy 21:17אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
  20. Deuteronomy 21:23אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    …you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  21. Deuteronomy 22:3אֲשֶׁר־
    And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
  22. Deuteronomy 22:9אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
  23. Deuteronomy 22:12אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
  24. Deuteronomy 22:24אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר־
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  25. Deuteronomy 22:25אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
  26. Deuteronomy 22:26כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · is just like
    Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
  27. Deuteronomy 22:28אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
  28. Deuteronomy 22:29אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  29. Deuteronomy 23:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר; וַאֲשֶׁר֩ · [and]
    For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
  30. Deuteronomy 23:8אֲשֶׁר־
    The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  31. Deuteronomy 23:10אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
  32. Deuteronomy 23:15אֲשֶׁר־
    Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
  33. Deuteronomy 23:16אֲשֶׁר־
    Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
  34. Deuteronomy 23:19אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
  35. Deuteronomy 23:20אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
  36. Deuteronomy 23:23כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · because; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
  37. Deuteronomy 24:3אֲשֶׁר־
    …and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
  38. Deuteronomy 24:4אֲשֶֽׁר־ · who; אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    …then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  39. Deuteronomy 24:5אֲשֶׁר־
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  40. Deuteronomy 24:8אֲשֶׁר־
    In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.