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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 28:33אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:34אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:35אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
  4. Deuteronomy 28:36אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
  5. Deuteronomy 28:37אֲשֶׁר־ · to which
    You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  6. Deuteronomy 28:43אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:45אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:47אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
  9. Deuteronomy 28:48אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:49כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · like; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · whose
    The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  11. Deuteronomy 28:50אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
  12. Deuteronomy 28:51אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
  13. Deuteronomy 28:52אֲשֶׁ֥ר · in which; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
  14. Deuteronomy 28:53אֲשֶׁ֥ר · whom; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
  15. Deuteronomy 28:54אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
  16. Deuteronomy 28:55אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    …refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
  17. Deuteronomy 28:56אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
  18. Deuteronomy 28:57אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    …the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
  19. Deuteronomy 28:60אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
  20. Deuteronomy 28:61אֲשֶׁר֙
    The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
  21. Deuteronomy 28:62אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  22. Deuteronomy 28:63כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · Just as; אֲשֶׁר־
    Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
  23. Deuteronomy 28:64אֲשֶׁ֧ר · which
    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  24. Deuteronomy 28:67אֲשֶׁ֣ר · of; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
  25. Deuteronomy 28:68אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
  26. Deuteronomy 29:1אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁר־
    These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
  27. Deuteronomy 29:2אֲשֶׁר֩
    Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
  28. Deuteronomy 29:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
  29. Deuteronomy 29:9אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
  30. Deuteronomy 29:11אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    …your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
  31. Deuteronomy 29:12אֲשֶׁר֙ · which
    …so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
  32. Deuteronomy 29:13כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as; וְכַאֲשֶׁ֤ר · and as
    …and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  33. Deuteronomy 29:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר · those who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · with those who
    …but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
  34. Deuteronomy 29:16אֲשֶׁר־ · how; אֲשֶׁר־ · how; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
  35. Deuteronomy 29:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
  36. Deuteronomy 29:18אֲשֶׁר֩ · whose
    Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
  37. Deuteronomy 29:22אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.