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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 29:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who; אֲשֶׁר־
    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.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:23אֲשֶׁר֙ · which
    All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
  3. Deuteronomy 29:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר֙ · which
    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  4. Deuteronomy 29:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
  5. Deuteronomy 30:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֧ר · to which
    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  6. Deuteronomy 30:2אֲשֶׁר־
    …and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
  7. Deuteronomy 30:3אֲשֶׁ֧ר · to which
    …then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
  8. Deuteronomy 30:5אֲשֶׁר־
    And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
  9. Deuteronomy 30:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
  10. Deuteronomy 30:8אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
  11. Deuteronomy 30:9כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · as
    So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
  12. Deuteronomy 30:11אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
  13. Deuteronomy 30:16אֲשֶׁ֨ר · For; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  14. Deuteronomy 30:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  15. Deuteronomy 30:20אֲשֶׁר֩ · that
    …and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  16. Deuteronomy 31:3כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as
    The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
  17. Deuteronomy 31:4כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · when
    And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.
  18. Deuteronomy 31:5אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
  19. Deuteronomy 31:7אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
  20. Deuteronomy 31:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
  21. Deuteronomy 31:12אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
  22. Deuteronomy 31:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  23. Deuteronomy 31:16אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
  24. Deuteronomy 31:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
  25. Deuteronomy 31:20אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
  26. Deuteronomy 31:21אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
  27. Deuteronomy 31:23אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”
  28. Deuteronomy 31:29אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
  29. Deuteronomy 32:38אֲשֶׁ֨ר · which
    …which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
  30. Deuteronomy 32:46אֲשֶׁ֧ר; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · so that
    …he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
  31. Deuteronomy 32:47אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  32. Deuteronomy 32:49אֲשֶׁר֙; אֲשֶׁ֖ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · which
    “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
  33. Deuteronomy 32:50אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־ · just as
    And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
  34. Deuteronomy 32:51אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
  35. Deuteronomy 32:52אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
  36. Deuteronomy 33:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.